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Biography of Donald Pettit - Astronaut
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Donald Roy Pettit (born 20 April 1955) is an United States|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 Extra-vehicular activity|EVAs to help install external scientific equipment. Pettit is married and has two children. astronaut-stub ==External link== * http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/pettit.html NASA Biography
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