Pedro Francisco Duque

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Pedro Duque
Pedro Duque
Country: Spain
Organization: ESA
selected on May 15, 1992
Calls: 2 space flights
Start of the
first space flight: 		October 29, 1998
Landing of the
last space flight: 		October 28, 2003
Time in space: 18d 18h ​​46min
retired on 7th June 2018
Space flights

Pedro Francisco Duque Duque (born March 14, 1963 in Madrid ) is a former Spanish astronaut and current politician. He was the first and so far only Spaniard in space. He has been the Spanish Minister of Science since June 6, 2018.

education

In 1986 Duque graduated from the Polytechnic University of Madrid with a degree in aeronautical engineering . He worked for ESA for six years before being selected as a candidate for a space flight in 1992.

Spaceman

Duque trained in Russia and the United States . His first space flight was aboard the space shuttle mission STS-95 as a mission specialist. In October 2003, Duque visited the International Space Station with Soyuz TMA-3 for a week . After his space flight he supported ESA as Director of Operations of the Spanish User Support and Operations Center (USOC) in Madrid, which is managed by the Instituto da Riva / Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (IDR / UPM). In October 2011 he returned to ESA after temporarily doing other work and became head of the Flight Operations Office at the Columbus Control Center (Col-CC) on the premises of the Space Control Center of the German Aerospace Center in Oberpfaffenhofen, Bavaria . In June 2017 he was a participant in the underwater mission NEEMO-22 .

Summary:

No. mission function Flight date Flight duration
1 STS-95 Mission specialist 1998 8d 21h 44min
2 Soyuz TMA-3 / Soyuz TMA-2 Flight engineer 2003 9d 21h 02min

Politician

Since June 6, 2018, Duque has been Minister for Science, Innovation and Universities in the Sánchez cabinet of the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez . In the Sanchez II cabinet , he has been Minister for Science and Innovation since January 13, 2020. He had to hand over responsibility for university policy to Manuel Castells .

Private

Duque is married and has three children.

See also

Web links

Commons : Pedro Duque  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ El Presidente del Gobierno, Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón: Real Decreto 357/2018, de 6 de junio, por el que se nombran Ministros del Gobierno. In: «BOE» núm. 138, de 7 de junio de 2018, páginas 58729 a 58729. Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado, June 6, 2018, accessed September 7, 2019 (Spanish).
  2. ↑ FOCUS Online: Sánchez presents coalition cabinet with 22 ministries. Retrieved January 12, 2020 .
  3. ^ Hans-Christian Rößler, Madrid: New government in Spain: Pedro Sánchez presents his cabinet . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed January 12, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Duque, Pedro Francisco
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Duque Duque, Pedro Francisco (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish astronaut
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Madrid