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Pedro Duque

Pedro Duque

1999 Award Winners

Pedro Duque (Spain, 1963) is an aeronautical engineer and astronaut. He is one of the few European astronauts to have been into space, and is the first and only Spanish astronaut. He was on board the "Discovery" space shuttle in October 1998 with John Glenn and Chiaki Mukai on the STS-95 international scientific mission.
 

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