Michael Anderson
Astronaut
Died when: 43 years 38 days (517 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
Michael Phillip Anderson (December 25, 1959 – February 1, 2003) was a United States Air Force officer and NASA astronaut.Anderson and his six fellow crew members were killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster when the craft disintegrated during its re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere.
Anderson served as the payload commander and lieutenant colonel in charge of science experiments on the Columbia.Anderson was posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.
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