Mike Mullane is an American former NASA astronaut who completed three space missions aboard the space shuttles Discovery and Atlantis in the 1980s, serving as a mission specialist in the first group of space shuttle astronauts. He returned in 1990. Mullane has since been inducted into the International Space Hall of Fame and has written numerous books, including his memoir, Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut.

Prior to his career as an astronaut, Mullane was a weapons system operator aboard aircraft in the Vietnam War, completing 134 combat missions in Vietnam.

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