Donald Pettit
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| Astronaut, Cosmonaut | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Born | 20 April 1955 Silverton, Oregon |
| Occupation1 | Chemical Engineer |
| Space time | 161d 01h 14m |
| Selection | 1996 NASA Group |
| Mission(s) | STS-113, Expedition 6, Soyuz TMA-1 |
| Mission insignia |   |
| 1 previous or current | |
Donald Roy Pettit (born 20 April 1955) is an American astronaut, a veteran of a six month stay aboard the International Space Station.
Pettit, raised in Silverton, Oregon, earned a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Oregon State University in 1978 and a doctoral degree from the University of Arizona in 1983. Pettit worked as a scientist as the Los Alamos National Laboratory until 1996, when he was selected as an astronaut candidate. His sole space mission to date has been as a mission specialist on ISS Expedition 6 in 2002 and 2003. During his time aboard the space station, Pettit performed two EVAs to help install external scientific equipment. Pettit is married and has two children.
Throughout his stay on the International Space Station during his free time Tom Pettit filmed numerous expiriments he conducted on free spheres of water in an extremely-low gravity environment in a series which he called Saturday Morning Science.
[edit] References
- Astronauts and the BSA. Fact sheet. Boy Scouts of America. Retrieved on September 6, 2006.
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