Official name: Pedro Francisco Duque Duque, but prefers to be called just Pedro Duque; graduated from Escuela Tecnica Superior de Ingenieros Aeronauticos, Universidad Politechnica, Madrid, 1986; was assigned to train at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas and entered the 1996 Class as a mission specialist; in April 2001 he was assigned to the first ISS advanced training class and underwent preparation until 2003 that qualified him for one of the first European long-term flights on board ISS; was seconded by ESA as Director of Operations of the Spanish User Support and Operations Centre (USOC) in Madrid, which is managed by the Instituto da Riva/Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (IDR/UPM); hobbies: swimming, diving, cycling. In October 2011 Duque returned to ESA after his special leave as a member of ESA’s European Astronaut Corps.