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Donald Pettit

1955 - Today

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Donald Roy Pettit (born April 20, 1955) is an American astronaut and chemical engineer best known for his orbital astrophotography and in-space inventions such as the Zero G Cup, which received the first ever patent for an object invented in space. He is a veteran of three long-duration stays aboard the International Space Station, one Space Shuttle mission, and a six-week expedition to find meteorites in Antarctica. As of 2025, at age 70, he is NASA's oldest active astronaut and the third oldest person to reach orbit, behind John Glenn and Larry Connor. He has accumulated 590 days in space, behind only Peggy Whitson and Suni Williams. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Donald Pettit is the 182nd most popular astronaut (up from 297th in 2019), the 6,646th most popular biography from United States (up from 11,334th in 2019) and the 82nd most popular American Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Donald Pettit ranks 182 out of 556. Before him are Valentina Ponomaryova, Lodewijk van den Berg, Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov, Roy D. Bridges Jr., Christer Fuglesang, and William H. Dana. After him are Viktor Savinykh, Vladimir Solovyov, Theodore Freeman, Robert L. Behnken, Anatoly Levchenko, and Léopold Eyharts.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Donald Pettit ranks 271. Before him are Sergei Mavrodi, Christopher McDonald, Baltasar Garzón, Virginia Ruzici, Raoul Trujillo, and Roberto Pruzzo. After him are Charles Martinet, Bambi Woods, Tommy Wiseau, Aleksandre Chivadze, Mark Boone Junior, and Peter Fleming.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Donald Pettit ranks 6,647 out of 20,380. Before him are Nancy Kovack (1935), Clarence Clark (1859), Dr. John (1941), Gates McFadden (1949), Johnny Tillotson (1938), and Frankie Laine (1913). After him are Hannah Van Buren (1783), Lennie Tristano (1919), John Johnson (1947), Betty Hutton (1921), Neal McDonough (1966), and Hank Mobley (1930).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Donald Pettit ranks 82. Before him are Paul J. Weitz (1932), Robert Henry Lawrence Jr. (1935), Ronald McNair (1950), Edward Gibson (1936), Roy D. Bridges Jr. (1943), and William H. Dana (1930). After him are Theodore Freeman (1930), Robert L. Behnken (1970), William Shepherd (1949), Rick Husband (1957), C. Gordon Fullerton (1936), and Paul Lockhart (1956).

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