Meet Astronaut Dan Burbank
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National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC
Astronaut Dan Burbank will recount his recent five-month mission to the International Space Station with a discussion and a multimedia presentation in the Museum's Space Race gallery.
Burbank, a veteran of three space flights totaling 189 days in space, recently completed a 165-day mission as a member of the Expedition 29 and 30 crews. He and his crewmates, Expedition 30 Flight Engineers Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin of the Russian Federal Space Agency, returned to Earth in their Soyuz spacecraft on April 27.
As part of a comprehensive research program, Burbank worked with experiments related to how the space environment affects the human body, plants, microbes, fluids, materials, and combustion. He also worked with technology development experiments, notably supporting the initial checkout and tests of Robonaut 2, eventually sharing a handshake with the first humanoid robot in space.
He will not be signing autographs or posing for photographs after the presentation.
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