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Michael Phillip Anderson (December 25, 1959 - February 1, 2003) was a USAir Force officer and NASA astronaut. He graduated from the University of Washington in 1981 and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the US Air Force. In 1986 he was selected to attend Undergraduate Pilot Training at Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma. Upon graduation he was assigned to the 2d Airborne Command and Control Squadron, as an EC-135 pilot. Selected by NASA in December 1994, he completed a year of training and evaluation, and was qualified for flight crew assignment as a mission specialist. He was initially assigned technical duties in the Flight Support Branch of the Astronaut Office. Anderson flew on missions STS-89 and STS-107, logging over 593 hours in space. The STS-107 mission ended on February 1, 2003 when the Space Shuttle Columbia reentered the atmosphere. Anderson perished instantly during the break-up and his body was discovered in a farm-field in a country-side of Texas. He was 43 years old and left behind a wife and two daughters. No photographer credited, undated.
