Mike Foale

Mike Foale is a US citizen, PhD experimental physicist from Cambridge University, England. He was formerly employed at the NASA Johnson Space center, where he served as NASA astronaut from 1987 until 2013. After leaving NASA in 2013 to form Foale Aerospace he supported the Inspiration Mars Foundation focusing on operations and redundancy. He was the technical lead for developing a plan for the refurbishment and reuse of an Apollo Command Module for the return of a crew to Earth, from Mars. He has supported Whittinghill Aerospace, United Launch Alliance, Virgin Galactic, Special Aerospace Services, Astrobotic and Bosch payload development with technical and software services. He has designed and deployed machine learning microprocessor embedded systems using C, C++, Python, and hardware description language for FPGA's. He is currently developing fault management systems on embedded processors for aircraft.