Daniel Burbank
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. Selected by NASA in April 1996. 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.
Spaceflights:
No. Mission Position Time Duration
1 STS-106 MSP 08.09.2000 - 20.09.2000 11d 19h 12m
2 STS-115 MSP 09.09.2006 - 21.09.2006 11d 19h 06m
3 Soyuz TMA-22 / ISS-29 / ISS-30 Flight Engineer / ISS-CDR 14.11.2011 - 27.04.2012 165d 07h 31m
Total 188d 21h 49m
