This article is about the astronaut. For the poker player, see Chris Ferguson. For the American psychologist, see Christopher Ferguson (psychologist).
Christopher Ferguson
Ferguson's Commercial Crew program portrait, photographed in 2018
Born
(1961-09-01) September 1, 1961 (age 62)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Other names
Fergy
Education
Drexel University (BS) Naval Postgraduate School (MS)
Space career
NASA astronaut
Rank
Captain, USN
Time in space
40d 10h 3m
Selection
NASA Group 17 (1998)
Missions
STS-115 STS-126 STS-135
Mission insignia
Christopher J. "Fergy" Ferguson (born September 1, 1961) is a Boeing commercial astronaut and a retired United States Navy captain and NASA astronaut. He was the pilot of Space Shuttle Atlantis on his first mission to space, STS-115, which launched on September 9, 2006, and returned to Earth on September 21, 2006. He then commanded STS-126 aboard Space ShuttleEndeavour. In 2011, he was assigned as commander of STS-135, which was the final mission of the space shuttle program.
On December 9, 2011, he retired from NASA and became director of Crew and Mission Operations for Boeing's Commercial Crew Program. In August 2018, Ferguson was assigned to the first test flight of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner,[1] although he stepped down from the mission in October 2020.
^"NASA Assigns Crews to First Test Flights, Missions on Commercial Spacecraft". NASA. August 3, 2018. Retrieved August 4, 2018.
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