Raised and educated in Lake Orion, Michigan. Married to Indira Devi Bhatnagar of Ontario, Canada. Drew enjoys auto restoration, skiing, playing guitar, and is a fan of motorsports racing.

A.S., Oakland Community College, Michigan; B.S., M.S., Purdue University; Ph.D., Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Honourary Doctorates:

Purdue University | Queen’s University | McGill University

While attending Oakland Community College, Drew worked as an auto mechanic restoring 1950’s Jaguars. At Purdue University, he served as a Residence Hall Counselor for the Purdue University Student Housing organization. His summers were spent working as a commercial and industrial glazier near his home in Michigan. During his Master’s degree studies, Drew worked as a Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant in the Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department of Purdue University. While at Purdue, he served for three years as Grand Prix Chairman and team Kart driver for Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity. In 1991, he and Indira moved to Kingston, Ontario, Canada, to attend Queen’s University to earn his Ph.D., where he worked as a Graduate Research Assistant and Graduate Teaching Assistant. For three years, he worked as a Geophysicist for the Engineering Seismology Group, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, installing and operating microseismic monitoring equipment in underground mines throughout Eastern Canada and the United States. In 1996, Drew began working for the Exxon Mobil Exploration Company, Houston, Texas, as an Exploration Geophysicist, designing and providing operational oversight of land, marine and borehole seismic programs worldwide.

Astronaut selected in July 2000.

Participated in NASA Astronaut Training activities including: Field Medical Training, Field Maintenance Training, NEEMO X underwater Aquarius Habitat, Key Largo, Florida; CAVES, Sardinia, Italy; NOLS Alaska and Mexico; Winter Survival Training Canadian Armed Forces Valcartier, Quebec; Desert Rats Flagstaff, Arizona; Geotechnical Studies, Dry Valleys, Antarctica; Deepworker Submersible Pilot Training, Vancouver, British Columbia; Army Aviation Helicopter Flight Training, Alabama and Colorado.

226 days in space:

STS‐125 (May 11-24, 2009). Final Hubble Space Telescope Servicing mission on Space Shuttle Atlantis.

STS‐134 (May 16 - June 1, 2011). Final flight of Space Shuttle Endeavour and delivery of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer to ISS.

Expedition 55/56 (March 21 - October 4, 2018). Launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard the Soyuz spacecraft serving as ISS Commander during Expedition 56.

Conducted 9 spacewalks with a total of 61 hours, 48 minutes.  Feustel is third among all U.S. spacewalkers for aggregate EVA time.