Lee Morin

Lee Morin is an American physician, naval officer and retired NASA astronaut who flew once on the Space Shuttle. Born on 9 September 1952 in Manchester, New Hampshire, he earned degrees in mathematical and electrical science, biochemistry, medicine, microbiology, public health and physics, and the profile describes him as the most formally educated astronaut, with six academic degrees. He served as a Captain in the US Navy, including as a flight surgeon during Operation Desert Storm, and NASA selected him in 1996 as part of Group 16. He flew as a mission specialist on STS-110, launched on 8 April 2002, spending about eleven days in space and performing two spacewalks totalling 14 hours 9 minutes to help install the S0 truss on the International Space Station. He later worked on the cockpit of the Orion spacecraft and retired from NASA in December 2025.