Pedro Duque

Pedro Duque
Pedro Duque
Minister of Science, innovation and Universities
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; July 7 2018
Monarch	Felipe VI
Prime Minister	Pedro Sánchez
Preceded by	Position Created
Personal details
Political party	Indpendent

Pedro Duque
Pedro Duque
Born	14 March 1963 (age 61); Madrid, Spain
Status	Active
Nationality	Spanish
Occupation	Flight engineer
Awards	Grand Cross of Aeronautical Merit; Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation; Member of the Order of Friendship (Russian Federation); Medal "For Merit in Space Exploration"
	Space career
ESA Astronaut
Time in space	18d 18h 46m
Selection	1992 ESA Group
Missions	STS-95, Soyuz TMA-3/2
Mission insignia

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Pedro Francisco Duque Duque (Madrid, 14 March 1963) is a Spanish astronaut and aeronautics engineer, currently serving as Spain´s Minister of Science, Innovation and Universities. He was the first Spanish astronaut.

Biography

Early Live and Education

Born in Madrid in 1963. The son of an agricultural engineer who worked as an air traffic controller and a housewife from Badajoz. In 1996 Duque earned a degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. In 1986 he worked for GMV and for the European Space Agency (ESA) for six years before being selected as an astronaut candidate in 1992.

Astronaut

Duque underwent training in both Russia and the United States. His first spaceflight was as a mission specialist aboard space shuttle mission STS-95, during which Duque supervised ESA experimental modules. In October 2003, Duque visited the International Space Station on board of a Soyuz TMA Ship for several days during a crew changeover. The scientific program of this visit was called by ESA/Spain Misión Cervantes.

University and Bussines

In 2003 he started working UPM School of Aeronautical Engineers as head of operations of the Spanish USOC, also lecturing students on space science and operations,^[1]

In 2006 Duque was named managing director of Deimos Imaging, a private company, that in 2009 put in orbit the first Spanish earth observation satellite (Deimos 1) with uses in agriculture, forestry wildfire detection and control. In 2011 he was named CEO of the Company.

Return to the ESA

In October 2011 Duque returned to his position in the European Space Agency, retaking his position as an atronaut. Until 2015 he was the leader of the Flight Operations Office, with responsability over ESA operations in the ISS. After that he sasumed the responsability of the review of future ESA manned flights, within the ESA's astronaut corps.

Minister

After the Succes of the Motion of no confidence against the Spanish governement in june 2018, Prime Minister Sanchez named Pedro Duque Minister of Science, Innovation and Universities, becoming the second astronaut in the world to hold a ministerial position^[2]

Honors and Decorations

Order Of Friendship of the Russian Federation (1995)
Grand Cross of Aeronautical Merit (1999)
Prince of Asturias Award of International Cooperation (1999)
Doctor Honoris Causa of the Technical University of Valencia (2005)
Medal "For Merit in Space Exploration" of the Russian federation (2011)
Doctor Honoris Causa of the European University of Madrid (2013)
Doctor Honoris Causa of the National University of Distance Education (2016)
Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Almería

References

^ "El Astronauta e Ingeniero Aeronáutico Pedro Duque "ficha" por su Escuela". Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Aeronaúticos (in Spanish). Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. 21 October 2004. Archived from the original on 8 December 2004. Retrieved 28 April 2005.
^ "Pedro Duque, único astronauta ministro, con el canadiense Mark Garneau". Europa Press. June 6 2018. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)

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[1] "El Astronauta e Ingeniero Aeronáutico Pedro Duque "ficha" por su Escuela". Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Aeronaúticos (in Spanish). Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. 21 October 2004. Archived from the original on 8 December 2004. Retrieved 28 April 2005.

[2] "Pedro Duque, único astronauta ministro, con el canadiense Mark Garneau". Europa Press. June 6 2018. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)

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