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Michael T. Good

Michael T. Good
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NASA Astronaut
Nationality American
Status Management
Born Parma, Ohio
Other occupation
Test weapon systems officer
Rank Colonel, USAF Ret.
Time in space
24 days, 18 hours, 6 minutes
Selection 2000 NASA Group
Total EVAs
4
Total EVA time
29 hours, 53 minutes
Missions STS-125, STS-132
Mission insignia
STS-125 patch.svg STS-132 Patch.svg

Michael Timothy "Bueno" Good is a NASA astronaut and retired commissioned officer in the United States Air Force, holding the rank of Colonel. Mike Good flew aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis for its STS-125 mission. STS-125 was the final Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission. Good flew as Mission Specialist 2 on STS-132.

Good was born in Parma, Ohio, but was raised in Broadview Heights.

Good went to college and received a Bachelor of Science in aerospace engineering at the University of Notre Dame, before completing a Master of Science program there in 1986.

His wife, Joan Dickinson, also of Broadview Heights, is the mother of their three children. They currently live in Seabrook, Texas.

Good graduated from Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School of Broadview Heights, Ohio, in 1980. He earned a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, from the University of Notre Dame in 1984, and an M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 1986.

After graduation, he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the United States Air Force and subsequently assigned to Eglin Air Force Base. As an aviator, he has flown more than 30 types of aircraft, including the F-111 and the F-15. He has logged more than 2300 hours of flight. Good was selected and began training as a Mission Specialist by NASA in 2000. He is one of only two Air Force rated navigators who have been selected as astronauts (the other being Richard Mullane, selected in 1978). Both of these navigators were weapon systems officers.


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