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Charles Duke
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American engineer, U.S. Air Force officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut (born 1935)
OverviewAI-generated
Charles Duke is an American astronaut, test pilot, fighter pilot, and flight instructor who served in the United States Air Force as a brigadier general. Born on October 3, 1935, in Charlotte, North Carolina, he is a member of NASA Astronaut Group 5 and has been employed by NASA. His education includes studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School, and the United States Naval Academy.
Duke has received several honors, including induction into the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame and the National Aviation Hall of Fame, as well as the NASA Distinguished Service Medal and the Air Force Distinguished Service Medal. He has spent a total of 15,951 minutes in space.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1812
- Died
- 1891
- Works
- 78
Top works
- Works
- Select orations of M. T. Cicero
- A dictionary of epithets, classified according to their English meaning
- Cicero
- An English-Greek lexicon
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
Charles Moss Duke Jr. (born October 3, 1935) is an American former astronaut, United States Air Force (USAF) officer and test pilot. As Lunar Module pilot of Apollo 16 in 1972, he became the 10th and youngest person to walk on the Moon, at age 36 years and 201 days.
Known for
- The Eagle Obsession — Self2025
- Hazardous Journey - The Apollo 11 Moon Landing — Self (archive footage)2024
- Apollo: The Forgotten Films — Self - Apollo Program Astronaut (voice)2019
- ...und Charlie sagte: Go for Landing! — Self (archive footage)2019
- The Day We Walked on the Moon — Self2019
- Der zehnte Mann auf dem Mond — Self2019
- Apollo 11 — Self (archive footage)2019
- Confessions from Space: Apollo — Self2019
- On Camera: Fifteen Apollo Astronauts and Their Experience of a Lifetime2019
- CAPCOM GO! The Apollo Story — Self (Voice)2019
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 191
- Total plays
- 501
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,438x
- The Pittsburgh sleep quality index: A new instrument for psychiatric practice and research
· 1989 · cited 29,180x
- Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
· 2015 · cited 23,726x
- Array programming with NumPy
· 2020 · cited 23,406x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,854x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Charles Moss Duke Jr. , ( 1935-10-03 ) October 3, 1935 (age 90) , Charlotte, North Carolina , U.S.
- Education
- United States Naval Academy ( BS ) Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MS )
- Spouse
- Dorothy Meade Claiborne ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1963 )
- Awards
- Air Force Distinguished Service Medal (2) Legion of Merit NASA Distinguished Service Medal
- Rank
- Brigadier General , USAF
- Time in space
- 11d 1h 51m
- Selection
- NASA Group 5 (1966)
- Total eva time
- 21h 38m
- Missions
- Apollo 16
- Retirement
- January 1, 1976
- Website
- Official website
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Part of
- NASA Astronaut Group 5
- Family name
- Duke
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Charlotte
- Occupation
- businessperson
- Employer
- NASA
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Military branch
- United States Air Force
- Military rank
- brigadier general
- Official website
- www.charlieduke.net/index.html
- Image
- Charles Duke (29881269755).jpg
Show 12 more facts
- Commons category
- Charlie Duke
- date of birth
- 1935-10-03
- Commons gallery
- Charles M. Duke
- described by source
- Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
- time in space
- 15951
- name in native language
- Charlie Duke
- birth name
- Charles M. Duke
- service retirement
- 1976-01-01
- nominated for
- NASA Astronaut Group 5
- member of the crew of
- Apollo 16
- has works in the collection
- National Gallery of Art
- P450
- Apollo 16
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Charles Moss Duke Jr. (born October 3, 1935) is an American former astronaut, United States Air Force (USAF) officer and test pilot who, as Lunar Module pilot of Apollo 16 in 1972, became the 10th and youngest person to walk on the Moon, at age 36 years and 201 days. Duke is one of four surviving Moon walkers, along with David Scott, Buzz Aldrin and Harrison Schmitt.
A 1957 graduate of the United States Naval Academy, Duke joined the USAF and completed advanced flight training on the F-86 Sabre at Moody Air Force Base in Georgia, where he was a distinguished graduate. After completion of this training, Duke served three years as a fighter pilot with the 526th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron at Ramstein Air Base in West Germany. After graduating from the Aerospace Research Pilot School in September 1965, he stayed on as an instructor teaching control systems and flying in the F-101 Voodoo, F-104 Starfighter, and T-33 Shooting Star.
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