Pedro Duque

He has born in Madrid, Spain, the 14 of March of 1963. Now he is 53 years old, and he is married TO A Spanish woman called María Consuelo Femenía, and they have three kids.

In 1988,  he EARNED A DEGREE FROM  the UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA in Madrid, being the first of hiS promotion. In the same year he started working FOR a Spanish company of investigation. In 1992 he participated in a quIZz to become an astronaut. He won that qUIZZ and they started training Pedro in USA to become an elit astronaut. In October 1998 he did his first trip to the space, in wHich he worked with the ESA an international company of investigation of the space. In that mission he worked as a supervisor of the ship. In 2003 he went to the space ON “Misión Cervantes".

He is special because he was the first Spanish mAn,born in Spain, to travel to the space. LotS of people think THAt the first man to do this was Miguel López-Alegría, born in Spain,  but he was American, so the first one was Pedro Duque. 

He has recEIVED lots of prices like Principe de Asturias or being called: Doctor Honoris Causa three times: 2005 in Valencia, 2011 Madrid and 2016 UNED

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