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Veteran astronaut Fincke retires

Posted: Sun, Aug 16, 2026, 10:53 AM ET (1453 GMT)
Veteran NASA astronaut Mike Fincke has left the agency. NASA announced Wednesday that Fincke has retired from the astronaut corps, 30 years after being selected. He flew on four missions to the International Space Station on Soyuz, the Space Shuttle and Crew Dragon, spending 549 days in space. His last flight was the Crew-11 mission that ended a month early in January after a medical issue that Fincke later said he experienced. Fincke will become a professor at MIT.

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