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Foale is apparently British by birth, but what is the evidence or reference for his US nationality? --ukexpat 16:10, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
You can read this article if you want- mentions how several British have become US citizens to fly in space. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6993010.stm —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.14.26.29 (talk) 15:30, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
Since Michael Foale's father (Colin) is British and his mother (Mary) is American, the astronaut holds US-UK dual citizenship by birth. In general, NASA flies only US citizens as career astronauts. Foale did not have to become an American, as did astronauts Piers Sellers and Nicholas Patrick, because he is already American. The UK press often get Foale's nationality details wrong, and one must be careful to avoid leaking such into Wikipedia. See the scuba article http://www.divernet.com/cgi-bin/articles.pl?id=5966&sc=&ac=d&an= to read more about all three British-born astronauts who currently work for NASA. --OrbisTerra (talk) 02:18, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
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