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): Adolf Hitler • Alexander Zverev • Allan Houston • Carol I of Romania • Cornelius Harnett • Elena Verdugo • Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau • George Takei • Harvey Quaytman • Johnny Tillotson • K. Alex Müller • Kakha Bendukidze • Marie-Antoinette de Geuser • Oliver Kirk • Peter Chelsom • Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha • Siegmund Lubin • Steve Spurrier

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