Rich Clifford

Michael Richard Uram "Rich" Clifford was a United States Army officer and NASA astronaut. Clifford was considered a Master Army Aviator and logged over 3,400 hours flying in a wide variety of fixed and rotary winged aircraft. Clifford retired from the U.S. Army at the rank of lieutenant colonel. He logged over 12 hours of spacewalk time over three Space Shuttle missions. He was also one of the first people to conduct a spacewalk while docked to an orbiting space station. The spacewalk was conducted during STS-76, while docked at the Russian space station Mir.