Daniel C. Burbank

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Daniel Christopher Burbank is a retired American astronaut and a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions. Burbank, a Captain in the United States Coast Guard, is the second Coast Guard astronaut after Bruce Melnick. Burbank was born in Manchester, Connecticut, and raised in Tolland, Connecticut, where he graduated from Tolland High School. He attended Fairfield University his freshman year before transferring to the United States Coast Guard Academy, where he earned his commission in 1985. In 1987, he went through flight training and became an instructor pilot, serving at various Coast Guard stations at Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod, and Coast Guard Air Station Sitka.

Biography from Launch Library 2.

Born in

Manchester

Education

Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University; United States Coast Guard Academy; Tolland High School; Fairfield University

Awards

NASA Distinguished Service Medal; Air Medal; Legionnaire of Legion of Merit

From Wikidata.

• Soyuz-FG | Soyuz TMA-22Flight Engineer · Success · with Anatoli Ivanishin, Anton ShkaplerovNovember 14, 2011 · 04:14 UTC
• Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-115Mission Specialist · Success · with Brent W. Jett Jr., Christopher Ferguson, Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, Joseph R. Tanner, Steve MacLeanSeptember 9, 2006
• Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-106Mission Specialist · Success · with Boris Morukov, Ed Lu, Richard Mastracchio, Scott Altman, Terrence W. Wilcutt, Yuri MalenchenkoSeptember 8, 2000

• STS-115 EVA 27h 11m2006-09-13

• Expedition 30International Space Station · Commander2011-11-21 – 2012-04-27
• Expedition 29International Space Station · Flight Engineer2011-09-16 – 2011-11-21