ABOUT MICHAEL LóPEZ-ALEGRíA
Spanish-American astronaut whose 215-day spaceflight in 2007 set the American record at the time.
He was born in Spain and raised in California.
He spent 215 days on the International Space Station; he has performed over 10 spacewalks.
He married and had one child.
He was raised in the same state in which astronaut John Watts Young was born.
