Nicholas Patrick

Nicholas Patrick
Nicholas Patrick
NASA Astronaut
Nationality British / American
Status Active
Born November 19, 1964 (1964-11-19) (age 47)
Saltburn-by-the-Sea, England, United Kingdom
Other occupation Engineer
Time in space 12d 20h 45m
Selection 1998 NASA Group
Missions STS-116, STS-130
Mission insignia Sts-116-patch.png STS-130 patch.png

Nicholas James MacDonald Patrick, Ph.D., is a British-born engineer and a 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.

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Education and career

Patrick was first educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge (receiving an undergraduate degree in Engineering in 1986). During his university years, he learned to fly as a member of the Royal Air Force's Cambridge University Air Squadron. After Cambridge, he worked for four years as an engineer for the Aircraft Engines Division of GE, in Lynn, Massachusetts in the United States.

Patrick then attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receiving a master's degree (1990) and a PhD. (1996), both in Mechanical Engineering. Afterwards, he joined Boeing's Commercial Airplane Group in Seattle.

NASA career

Nicholas Patrick on STS-130 is pictured outside the cupola

Patrick was selected by NASA as an astronaut candidate in June 1998 and reported to NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) for astronaut training in August 1998. His initial training included scientific and technical briefings, intensive instruction in Shuttle and International Space Station systems, and physiological, survival, and classroom training in preparation for T-38 flight.

Patrick has logged over 308 hours in space having completed his first space mission the crew of STS-116 – a construction and logistics mission to the International Space Station. He occasionally serves as a CAPCOM, for example he worked with the Orbit 2 team for STS-120.

Patrick notably put the finishing touches on the Tranquility node during STS-130. [1]

In July 2003, Patrick served as an aquanaut during the NEEMO 6 mission aboard the Aquarius underwater laboratory, living and working underwater for ten days.[2] In August 2007, he served as the commander of the NEEMO 13 mission, living underwater for another ten days.[3]

Spaceflight experience

STS-116 Discovery (December 9–22, 2006): The seven-member crew on this 12-day mission continued construction of the ISS outpost by adding the P5 spacer truss segment during the first of four spacewalks. The next two spacewalks rewired the station’s power system, preparing it to support the addition of European and Japanese science modules by future shuttle crews. The fourth spacewalk was added to allow the crew to coax and retract a stubborn solar panel to fold up accordion-style into its box. Discovery also delivered a new crew member and more than two tons of equipment and supplies to the station. Almost two tons of items no longer needed on the station returned to Earth with STS-116. Mission duration was 12 days, 20 hours and 45 minutes. Patrick further worked on the STS-130 mission in which he worked on adding the Tranquility Module and the Cupola observation module.

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