Michael hopkins biography

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Michael Hopkins is a NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force colonel. He served as commander on the Crew-1 SpaceX Crew Dragon, which launched on November 15, 2020. The mission represented the first commercial crewed spacecraft to travel to the International Space Station.

He is currently a flight engineer on the ISS for NASA’s Expedition 64, which is his second long-duration space mission. 

For his first expedition, Expedition 37/38, Hopkins spent 166 days in space.

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During that time, he logged almost 13 hours of spacewalks. Hopkins became the first U.S. military transfer in space, as he voluntarily transferred from the U.S. Air Force to the U.S. Space Force.

Related: Meet Crew-1, the 4 astronauts who flew on SpaceX's first Crew Dragon

Early years

Hopkins was born in Lebanon, Missouri on December 28, 1968, and grew up on a farm outside Richland, Missouri.

After graduating from School of the Os