Pedro Duque, born March 14, 1963 in Madrid, Spain, is the first Spanish-born astronaut in space.
Duque's first flight was aboard Discovery (STS-95) as mission specialist for the European Space Agency in October-November 1998. He spent almost 10 days in space.
His second and final flight was aboard Soyuz TMA-3 to the International Space Station launched in October 2003 as Flight Engineer. He remained on board for about 10 days and returned to Earth aboard Soyuz TMA-2.
After retiring from the ESA, he became the Minister of Science for the Government of Spain.
Soyuz TMA-2, launched April 26, 2003 carried two members of Expedition 7 to the International Space Station. Its crew consisted of Commander Yuri Malenchenko (Roscosmos) and Edward Lu (NASA). They remained on board the ISS until October 2003 with ESA astronaut Pedro Duque.
Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko, born December 22, 1951 in the Ukraine, has spent more time in space than anybody, except for fellow cosmonaut Gennady Padalka. He is a veteran of 5 Soyuz missions and one Space Shuttle flight. He has been aboard Mir and the International Space Station. As of June 2016, he has spent a little over 827 days in space.
His first flight was as commander aboard Soyuz TM-19 to Mir in July 1994, where he spent 4 months.
His next mission was aboard Atlantis (STS-106) in September 2000 as mission specialist.
His third flight was on Soyuz TMA-2 in April 2003 to the ISS. While on board, he got married got married to Ekaterina Dmitrieva August 10, 2003. She was in Texas and he was 240 miles over New Zealand. He is the first person to get married while in space.
Malenchenko's fourth flight was on Soyuz TMA-11 as commander in October 2007 to the International Space Station. His fellow astronauts were Peggy Whitson, Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor (first Malaysian astronaut) and Yi So-yeon (the first Korean astronaut).
On the 37th anniversary of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Program, he blasted off on Soyuz TMA-05M July 2012.
His final flight was on Soyuz TMA-19M in December 2015.
