PERSONAL DATA: Born December 19, 1957 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and grew up in McAllen, Texas. Married to the former Melanie J. London. They have four children and one grandchild. He enjoys family activities, motorcycle riding, and backpacking. Mike’s main hobby is serving as Scoutmaster of a Boy Scout Troop. His parents, Merlyn E. Fossum and Patricia A. Fossum, are deceased.
EDUCATION: McAllen High School, McAllen, Texas, 1976. B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, 1980. M.S., Systems Engineering, Air Force Institute of Technology, 1981. M.S., Physical Science (Space Science), University of Houston-Clear Lake, 1997.
Go Bulldogs!
Just humiliating. American astronauts having to hitch a ride with the Russians. Another example of Obama doing all he can to drag our great nation down.
Change you can believe in:
Instead of returning to earth in a space shuttle, and having the latest technology available to help you acclimate in sunny Florida, astronauts get to crawl out of a capsule and sit in the snow waiting for their ride to get out of the wilderness.
Yes, but did they intend to land there? Kazakhstan is way out in the sticks. A long drive out.
I’d post the Russian photos but they’re still in photoshop. ;o)
What is important is whether NASA succeeds in building the self-esteem of Islamic pedophile terrorists. Astronauts are irrelevant to its new mission per Osama Obama.
SpaceX ..... Yes!!!
Soyuz ..... Da!!!
NASA/Senate space porkathon ..... umm, no thanks.
Wonder if he, like other Scouts circa 1975, remembers sitting around a campfire that summer and listening to an echoing "Apollo Soyuz!" reverberate from the mountains after we cast our voices into the darkness... when a glimmering object traveled through the sky?
I do.
