Nicholas Patrick
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| NASA Astronaut | |
| Nationality | British / American |
| Status | Retired |
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19 November 1964 Saltburn-by-the-Sea, England, United Kingdom |
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Other occupation
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Engineer |
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Time in space
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26d 14h 52m |
| Selection | 1998 NASA Group |
| Missions | STS-116, STS-130 |
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Mission insignia
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Nicholas James MacDonald Patrick, Ph.D. (born 19 November 1964), is a British-American engineer and a former NASA astronaut. His flight on the 2006 Discovery STS-116 mission made him the fourth person born in the United Kingdom to go into space.
Patrick was born in Saltburn-by-the-Sea, in Redcar and Cleveland, England, in 1964. His mother came from the Isle of Skye in Scotland. He grew up in both London and Rye, New York, and eventually became a United States citizen in 1994. Patrick is married to a paediatrician originally from Peru and has three children.
Patrick was first educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge (receiving an undergraduate degree in Engineering in 1986). During his university years, he learned to fly as a member of the Royal Air Force's Cambridge University Air Squadron. After Cambridge, he worked for four years as an engineer for the Aircraft Engines Division of General Electric, in Lynn, Massachusetts in the United States.
Patrick then attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receiving a master's degree (1990) and a PhD. (1996), both in Mechanical Engineering. Afterwards, he joined Boeing's Commercial Airplane Group in Seattle.
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