Nicholas Patrick
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 fifth Briton to go into space.
Patrick was born in Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Redcar and Cleveland, England in 1964, and grew up in London and Rye, NY. He became a United States citizen in 1994. Patrick is married to a Peruvian-born pediatrician and has three children.
Read more about Nicholas Patrick: Education and Career, NASA Career
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