Michael Coats
Michael Lloyd Coats (born January 16, 1946 in Sacramento, California) is a former NASA astronaut (three spaceflights), raised in Riverside, California. Since December 2005, he has served as Director of the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Coats will retire on December 31, 2012.
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