Robert D. Cabana
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| NASA Astronaut | |
| Nationality | American |
| Status | John F. Kennedy Space Center Director |
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January 23, 1949 Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. |
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Other names
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Robert Donald Cabana |
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Other occupation
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Naval aviator, test pilot |
| USNA, B.S. 1971 | |
| Rank | Colonel, USMC |
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Time in space
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37d 22h 42m |
| Selection | 1985 NASA Group 11 |
| Missions | STS-41, STS-53, STS-65, STS-88 |
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Robert Donald Cabana (born January 23, 1949) is the director of NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center, a NASA astronaut, and a veteran of four Space Shuttle flights. He is also a former Naval Flight Officer and Naval Aviator in the United States Marine Corps.
Born January 23, 1949, in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Ted and Annabell Cabana, who still reside in Minneapolis. He is the older of two sons. His younger brother is Gary Cabana and he is married to the former Nancy Joan Shimer of Cortland, New York. He has three children: Jeffrey, Christopher and Sarah.
He graduated from Washburn High School, Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1967. He Received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland in 1971.
After graduation from the United States Naval Academy, Cabana attended The Basic School at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, and completed Naval Flight Officer training at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, in 1972. He served as an A-6 Intruder bombardier/navigator with squadrons in the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing (2nd MAW) at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina, and the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan. He returned to NAS Pensacola in 1975 for pilot training and was redesignated as a Naval Aviator in September 1976. He was then assigned to the 2nd MAW at MCAS Cherry Point, where he flew A-6 Intruders. He graduated from the United States Naval Test Pilot School in 1981, and served at the Naval Air Test Center at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, as the A-6 program manager, X-29 advanced technology demonstrator project officer, and as a test pilot for flight systems and ordnance separation testing on A-6 Intruder and A-4 Skyhawk series aircraft. Prior to his selection as an astronaut candidate he was serving as the Assistant Operations Officer of Marine Aircraft Group 12 at MCAS Iwakuni, Japan.
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