Colonel Mike Mullane was a child of the space race and, in the late 1950s, embarked on his own rocket experiments in the deserts near his home. Upon his graduation from West Point in 1967, he was commissioned into the United States Air Force. As a Weapon Systems Operator aboard RF-4C Phantom aircraft, he completed 134 combat missions in Vietnam.

He holds a Master of Science Degree in Aeronautical Engineering and is also a graduate of the Air Force Flight Test Engineer School at Edwards Air Force Base, California.

Mullane was selected as a Mission Specialist in 1978 in the first group of NASA’s Space Shuttle Astronauts. He completed three space missions aboard the space shuttles Discovery and Atlantis before retiring from NASA and the Air Force in 1990. Mullane has been inducted into the International Space Hall of Fame and is the recipient of many awards.

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Mike Mullane's book - Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut.