Edward Michael "Mike" Fincke (born March 14, 1967) is an American astronaut and retired United States Air Force colonel. He formerly held the American record for the most time in space (381.6 days) until it was broken by Scott Kelly on October 16, 2015. Col. Fincke has logged nine spacewalks totaling 48 hours and 37 minutes of EVA time. He is unique in that six of those spacewalks were in the Russian Orlan spacesuit. Before his next launch Fincke will have been certified as a Soyuz co-pilot/flight engineer, a member of the Space Shuttle flight deck crew as well as a pilot for both Starliner and Crew Dragon.