Pedro Duque

Pedro Duque Francisco Duque ( born March 14, 1963 in Madrid ) is a Spanish astronaut. He was the first and only Spaniard in space.

1986 closed Duque from an engineering degree in aeronautical engineering at the Polytechnic University of Madrid. He spent six years working for ESA before 1992, he was selected as a candidate for space flight. 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 for a week the International Space Station on Soyuz TMA -3. He supported after his space flight, ESA Director of Operations of the Spanish User Support and Operations Centre ( USOC ) in Madrid, which is managed by the Instituto da Riva / Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (IDR / UPM ). In October 2011 he returned to temporary other activity back to ESA and heard again at the European Astronaut Corps.

Duque is married and has three children.

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