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): Augoustinos Kantiotes • Carl Greenidge • David Chalmers • Debbie Flintoff-King • John Paul Stevens • Johnny Gavin (footballer) • Julie Powell • Kostis Hatzidakis • Louka Katseli • Peter Chelsom • Renata of Lorraine • Rita Dionne-Marsolais • Siegmund Lubin • Toivo Aare • Tonny Kessler • Viktor Suvorov

Born in the same month (April 1955): Akira Toriyama • Barbara Kingsolver • Charlotte de Turckheim • Christian Gourcuff • Fabian Hamilton • Joolz Denby • Kate Mulgrew • Kurt Bodewig • Margaret Moran • Marion Caspers-Merk • Michael Stone (loyalist) • Nicolas Hulot • Ricardo Ferrero • Ron Johnson • Saeb Erekat • Svante Pääbo • Tim Cochran • Urmas Ott • Zev Siegl