Dan Burbank
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| NASA Astronaut | |
| Nationality | American |
| Status | Active |
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July 27, 1961 Manchester, Connecticut, U.S. |
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Other occupation
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Coast Guard |
| Rank | Captain, USCG |
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Time in space
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188 days |
| Selection | 1996 NASA Group |
| Missions | STS-106, STS-115, Soyuz TMA-22 (Expedition 29/30) |
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Daniel Christopher Burbank (born July 27, 1961) is an 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.
Burbank is listed as a member of the astronaut band "Max Q", and a former member of The Idlers.
He has a master's degree in aeronautical science from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
He is a licensed amateur radio operator (ham) with Technician License KC5ZSX.
Selected by NASA in April 1996, Burbank reported to the Johnson Space Center in August 1996. After completing two years of training and evaluation, Burbank worked technical issues for the Astronaut Office Operations Planning Branch, and the International Space Station (ISS) Branch, and served as CAPCOM (spacecraft communicator) for both Space Shuttle and ISS missions. He was also a member of the Space Shuttle Cockpit Avionics Upgrade design team. Twice flown, he served as a mission specialist on STS-106 and STS-115 logging over 23 days in space, and 7 hours and 11 minutes of EVA time. From January 2007 to December 2009 Burbank served as a professor of engineering at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, where he taught astronomy, aerodynamics, and statics & engineering design. Burbank was assigned to ISS Expedition 29 and Expedition 30 aboard ISS beginning September 2011.
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