Daniel Burbank

Daniel Christopher Burbank (born 27 July 1961) is an American astronaut and a veteran of one space shuttle mission.

Burbank, raised in Tolland, Connecticut, attended the United States Coast Guard Academy, earning his commission in 1985. In 1987, he went through flight training and became an instructor pilot, seving variously at Coast Guard stations in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and Stika, Alaska . NASA selected him as an astronaut candidate in 1996 and flew as a mission specialist aboard STS-106 in 2000.

External link

• NASA Biography