Steven Lee Smith (born December 30, 1958), is an American technology executive and a former NASA astronaut, being a veteran of four space flights covering 16 million miles and seven spacewalks, totaling 49 hours and 25 minutes.

Smith was also assigned to duties at the Kennedy Space Center for a year and a half as a member of the astronaut support team.

[1] Steve Smith is a veteran of four space flights covering 16 million miles and seven spacewalks totaling 49 hours and 25 minutes.

Smith’s responsibilities were split between shuttle systems and Space Radar Lab 2 (SRL-2, the flight’s primary payload).

[1] Smith returned to the Hubble Space Telescope and performed two spacewalks as the payload commander for the Discovery mission, STS-103 in December 1999.

[5] His speech topics include Lessons from Space to Enhance Your Life and Work, Leadership at 17500 Miles Per Hour, and An Astronaut's Journey: Dreams, Resilience, and Earth's Beauty.

[6]Smith has also joined several boards, including that of The Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation[7] and the Blue Sky Network.

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