He then moved to Ontario, Canada to attend Queen's University, where he received his PhD in Geological Sciences in 1995.

[4] While attending community college, Feustel worked as an auto mechanic at International Autoworks, Ltd., Farmington Hills, Michigan, restoring 1950s Jaguars.

thesis investigated physical property measurements of rock specimens under elevated hydrostatic pressures simulating Earth's deep crustal environments.

While at Purdue, Feustel served for three years as Grand Prix Chairman and team Kart driver for Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity.

Feustel's Ph.D. thesis investigated seismic wave attenuation in underground mines and measurement techniques and applications to site characterization.

[10] In October 2006, Feustel was announced as a crew member for STS-125, the final Hubble servicing mission by the Space Shuttle.

[5] In 2013, Feustel served as cavenaut into the ESA CAVES[11] training in Sardinia, alongside Soichi Noguchi, Andreas Mogensen, Nikolai Tikhonov, David Saint-Jacques and Michael Fincke.

[9] During the mission, Feustel accumulated a total EVA time of twenty hours and thirty eight minutes.

He took with him a copy of "Cosmic Songs" (1878) by the Czech poet Jan Neruda and Emm Gryner's album Asianblue.

[17] In December of that year, Vast, a space station manufacturer, announced that Feustel would join their team as an advisor.

[4] This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.