Barratt Credit - www.spacefacts.de

Personal: Male. Born in Vancouver, Washington, USA. MD

Astronaut Career

Astronaut Group: NASA Group 18 - 2000. Active Entered space service: 26 July 2000.

OFFICIAL NASA BIOGRAPHY

NAME: Michael R. Barratt, M.D., Mission Specialist

BIRTHDATE/PLACE: April 16, 1959 - Vancouver, WA

RESIDENCE WHEN RECRUITED: League City, TX

EDUCATION: Camas High School, Camas, WA, 1977 B.S., Zoology, University of Washington, 1981; M.D., Northwestern University, 1985; M.S., Aerospace Medicine, Wright State University, 1991.

POSITION WHEN RECRUITED: International Space Station Medical Operations Lead NASA Johnson Space Center Houston, TX

27 July 2000 - NASA Astronaut Training Group 18 selected.. The group was selected to provide pilot, engineer, and scientist astronauts for space shuttle flights.. Qualifications: Pilots: Bachelor's degree in engineering, biological science, physical science or mathematics. Advanced degree desirable. At least 1,000 flight-hours of pilot-in-command time. Flight test experience desirable. Excellent health. Vision minimum 20/50 uncorrected, correctable to 20/20 vision; maximum sitting blood pressure 140/90. Height between 163 and 193 cm.

Mission Specialists: Bachelor's degree in engineering, biological science, physical science or mathematics and minimum three years of related experience or an advanced degree. Vision minimum 20/150 uncorrected, correctable to 20/20. Maximum sitting blood pressure of 140/90. Height between 150 and 193 cm.. Seven pilots and ten mission specialists; 14 men and 3 women.

• NASA Astronaut Biographies, Johnson Space Center, NASA, 1995-present. Accessed at: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/.