Mike Mullane

Stories from Space

About Mike Mullane

Astronaut Mike Mullane is a 1967 graduate of West Point and holds a Master's of Science Degree in aeronautical Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology. Mullane was selected as a Mission Specialist in 1978 in the first group of Space Shuttle Astronauts. He completed three space missions and logged 356 hours in space about the Shuttles Discovery and Atlantis before retiring from NASA and the Air Force in 1990.

Since his retirement from NASA, Colonel Mullane has written and published a major, hardcover novel: RED SKY - A Novel of Love, Space & War, an award-winning children's book: Liftoff! An Astronaut's Dream; Do Your Ears Pop In Space? a popular space-fact book. He has produced a video, The Ten Thousand Nights Dream, that uniquely documents the human drama associated with spaceflight. Additionally, Colonel Mullane has served as a host for Inside Space, a nationally syndicated cable television program of the USA Network.

Mike's Program Topics

Lessons From Challenger
Drawing from his real life experiences - where lives literally hung in the balance on the performance of a team - Astronaut Mullane emphasizes the fundamentals of teamwork: training, communication, responsibility and trust. He delivers powerful lessons that are applicable to any team. Maintaining a sense of vulnerability while enjoying long term success, combating herd mentality, and balancing trust and ownership are just a few of these lessons.

Countdown to Teamwork
Countdown To Teamwork is a team-building /leadership program in which Colonel Mullane motivates the audience on their practice of these fundamentals of teamwork: guarding against a “normalization of deviance”, responsibility, trust, courageous self-leadership, and courageous team leadership. This program is applicable to all teams everywhere. It has thrilled and inspired personnel in sales, manufacturing, production, safety…in ALL areas of company operations. It has been cheered by managers and blue-collar workers, by union and non-union teams. It has been enjoyed by men and women from every corner of corporate America…from perfume sales teams to nuclear power plant safety teams; from insurance company teams to medical equipment manufacturers; from beverage producers to record label teams.

The Lighter Side of Spaceflight 
Astronaut Mullane provides a hilarious behind the scenes look at the comedy of the astronaut experience. Follow him through the training program and laugh at his stories of astronaut "gotcha's" - practical jokes. Join him 300 miles in earth orbit to experience some legendary Right Stuff humor. Audiences learn while they laugh with this ideal, after dinner program.

The Ten Thousand Nights Dream
Colonel and Mrs. Mullane together deliver this gripping story of the gut fear and the boundless joy that overwhelm an astronaut and spouse during a space mission. Similar to a one-act play, The Dream is also an ideal spouse program.

Going to The Edge Of Your Envelope
Every astronaut has taken a thundering machine to the edge of its performance envelope, to its absolute limit. In this program, Astronaut Mullane inspires the audience to seek their own personal performance limits, where they will find a better salesperson, a better executive . . .a better all around person. 

Astronaut Mullane has been inducted into the International Space Hall of Fame and is the recipient of many awards, including the Air Force Distinguished Flying Cross.

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