Retired· NASA · American
NASA selected Morgan to join its 21st astronaut class in August 2013. He launched to the space station aboard a Soyuz MS-13 spacecraft on July 20, 2019, the...
Spaceflights
1
first flight
Time in space
271days
Spacewalks
7
Spacewalking
45 h 48 m
in total
Bars drawn to scale, 0 to 8 hours
Expedition 60 EVA
Aug 21, 2019
Expedition 61 EVA 1
Oct 6, 2019
Expedition 61 EVA 2
Oct 11, 2019
Expedition 61 EVA 4
Nov 15, 2019
Expedition 61 EVA 5
Nov 22, 2019
Expedition 61 EVA 6
Dec 2, 2019
Expedition 61 EVA 9
Jan 25, 2020
Success· Flight 1
Aleksandr SkvortsovRoscosmos
Luca ParmitanoESANASA selected Morgan to join its 21st astronaut class in August 2013. He launched to the space station aboard a Soyuz MS-13 spacecraft on July 20, 2019, the same day as the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Morgan served as a flight engineer on International Space Station Expeditions 60, 61, and 62, contributing to hundreds of scientific experiments, technology demonstrations, and space station maintenance activities. He traveled over 115 million miles (about 185 million km) while completing more than 4,300 Earth orbits over the course of his mission.
During his nine months aboard the station, Morgan conducted seven spacewalks for a total of 45 hours and 48 minutes of spacewalking time, breaking the record for a single spaceflight by a U.S. astronaut. Four of his spacewalks were dedicated to repairing the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, a particle physics detector designed to search for evidence of antimatter and dark matter.
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