Donald Pettit

Donald Roy Pettit is an American astronaut and chemical engineer best known for his orbital astrophotography and in-space inventions such as the microgravity coffee cup, which received the first ever patent for an object invented in space. He is a veteran of two long-duration stays aboard the International Space Station, one Space Shuttle mission and a six-week expedition to find meteorites in Antarctica. As of 2024, at age 69, he is NASA's oldest active astronaut.

20 April 1955

Born on the same birth date (20 April 1955): Svante Pääbo

Born on the same birth day (20 April): Carl Greenidge • Charles Plumier • Harold Lloyd • Johannes Agricola • John Eccles, 2nd Viscount Eccles • Jorge Pinto • Justinien Clary • Kai Siegbahn • Massimo D'Alema • Myriam Bru • Rose of Lima • Ryan O'Neal • Stephen Marley • Tonny Kessler • Viktor Suvorov

Born in the same month (April 1955): Christian Gourcuff • Dodi Fayed • Fabian Hamilton • Gregg Jarrett • Judy Davis • Michael Callen • Michael Stone (loyalist) • Micheal Ray Richardson • Pradeep Sarkar • Rob Epstein • Svante Pääbo • Tim Cochran • Yamina Benguigui