Nationality Spanish Name Pedro Duque Other occupation Flight engineer Mission insignia | Selection 1992 ESA Group First space flight STS-95 Time in space 18d 18h 46m Role Astronaut | |
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Born 14 March 1963 (age 61)
Madrid, Spain ( 1963-03-14 ) Awards Grand Cross of Aeronautical Merit
Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation
Order of Friendship
Medal "For Merit in Space Exploration" Space missions STS-95, Soyuz TMA-2, Soyuz TMA-3 Education Technical University of Madrid Similar People Aleksandr Kaleri, Michael Foale, Chiaki Mukai, Yuri Malenchenko, Steven Lindsey | ||
Space agency European Space Agency | ||
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Pedro Duque Duque (born 14 March 1963) is a Spanish astronaut and a veteran of two space missions.
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Duque earned a degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) in 1986. He worked for GMV and for the European Space Agency (ESA) for six years before being selected as an astronaut candidate in 1992. Duque underwent training in both Russia and the United States. His first spaceflight was as a mission specialist aboard space shuttle mission STS-95, during which Duque supervised ESA experimental modules. In October 2003, Duque visited the International Space Station for several days during a crew changeover. The scientific program of this visit was called by ESA/Spain Misión Cervantes.
He worked at the UPM, in the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Aeronáuticos, he used to work at Deimos Imaging. Currently he is back as an astronaut of ESA, and leads the Flight Operations Office near Munich.
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