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Michael John "Bloomer" Bloomfield (born 16 March 1959) is a former American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 astronaut and a veteran of three space shuttle
Space Shuttle

NASA's Space Shuttle, officially called the Space Transportation System , is the spacecraft currently used by the United States government for its human spaceflight missions....
 missions.

Raised in Lake Fenton, Michigan
Lake Fenton, Michigan

Lake Fenton is an unincorporated community in Fenton Township, Michigan, Genesee County, Michigan in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also a census-designated place for statistical purposes and has no legal status as a municipality....
, Bloomfield received his bachelor's degree from the United States Air Force Academy
United States Air Force Academy

The United States Air Force Academy , is an accredited college for the undergraduate education of officers for the United States Air Force. Its campus is located immediately north of Colorado Springs, Colorado in El Paso County, Colorado, Colorado, United States....
 and trained as an F-15 and F-16 fighter pilot. He earned his master's degree from Old Dominion University
Old Dominion University

Old Dominion University is a large public research university located in historic Norfolk, Virginia. It was established in 1930 as the Norfolk Division of the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia....
 before being selected as an astronaut candidate in 1994.

He first flew as a pilot aboard STS-86
STS-86

STS-86 was a Space Shuttle Space Shuttle Atlantis mission to the Mir space station. This was the last Atlantis mission before it was taken out of service temporarily for maintenance and upgrades, including the glass cockpit....
 in 1997, where he docked with the space station Mir
Mir

Mir was a Soviet Union orbital station. Mir was the world's first consistently inhabited long-term research station in space, and the first 'third generation' type space station, constructed over a number of years with a Space station#Modular....
.






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Michael John "Bloomer" Bloomfield (born 16 March 1959) is a former American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 astronaut and a veteran of three space shuttle
Space Shuttle

NASA's Space Shuttle, officially called the Space Transportation System , is the spacecraft currently used by the United States government for its human spaceflight missions....
 missions.

Raised in Lake Fenton, Michigan
Lake Fenton, Michigan

Lake Fenton is an unincorporated community in Fenton Township, Michigan, Genesee County, Michigan in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also a census-designated place for statistical purposes and has no legal status as a municipality....
, Bloomfield received his bachelor's degree from the United States Air Force Academy
United States Air Force Academy

The United States Air Force Academy , is an accredited college for the undergraduate education of officers for the United States Air Force. Its campus is located immediately north of Colorado Springs, Colorado in El Paso County, Colorado, Colorado, United States....
 and trained as an F-15 and F-16 fighter pilot. He earned his master's degree from Old Dominion University
Old Dominion University

Old Dominion University is a large public research university located in historic Norfolk, Virginia. It was established in 1930 as the Norfolk Division of the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia....
 before being selected as an astronaut candidate in 1994.

He first flew as a pilot aboard STS-86
STS-86

STS-86 was a Space Shuttle Space Shuttle Atlantis mission to the Mir space station. This was the last Atlantis mission before it was taken out of service temporarily for maintenance and upgrades, including the glass cockpit....
 in 1997, where he docked with the space station Mir
Mir

Mir was a Soviet Union orbital station. Mir was the world's first consistently inhabited long-term research station in space, and the first 'third generation' type space station, constructed over a number of years with a Space station#Modular....
. Bloomfield also piloted STS-97
STS-97

was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station flown by Space Shuttle Endeavour....
 in 2000 and commanded STS-110
STS-110

STS-110 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station flown by Space Shuttle Atlantis. The main purpose was to install the Integrated Truss Structure segment, which forms the backbone of the truss structure on the station....
 in 2002, both missions to the International Space Station
International Space Station

The International Space Station is a research facility Assembly of the International Space Station in outer space. On-orbit construction of the station began in 1998, and is scheduled to be complete by 2011, with operations continuing until around 2015....
.

Bloomfield has served as deputy director of flight crew operations at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston since 2006, before resigning from NASA in July 2007.

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