Daniel C. Burbank
- Status: Retired
- In Space: No
- Date of Birth: 07/27/1961
- First Flight: 09/08/2000
- Last Flight: 11/14/2011
Launches
- Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-106
- Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-115
- Soyuz-FG | Soyuz TMA-22
Daniel C. Burbank, a American astronaut affiliated with the government agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration, embarked on 3 space flights and engaging in 1 spacewalks during his/her career as an astronaut.
Daniel Christopher Burbank is a retired American astronaut and a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions. Burbank, a Captain in the United States Coast Guard, is the second Coast Guard astronaut after Bruce Melnick.
Burbank was born in Manchester, Connecticut, and raised in Tolland, Connecticut, where he graduated from Tolland High School. He attended Fairfield University his freshman year before transferring to the United States Coast Guard Academy, where he earned his commission in 1985. In 1987, he went through flight training and became an instructor pilot, serving at various Coast Guard stations at Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod, and Coast Guard Air Station Sitka.
