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Joseph M. Acaba
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Astronaut, Hydrogeologist, science teacher
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Joseph M. Acaba is an American astronaut and teacher who served in the United States Marine Corps as a Sergeant. Born in Inglewood in 1967, he is a member of NASA Astronaut Group 19 and has been employed by NASA. He received the NASA Distinguished Service Medal for his service.
Acaba was a member of the Peace Corps and was educated at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the University of Arizona. He has spoken, written, or signed the English language. His space career included participation in the STS-119, Soyuz TMA-04M, Soyuz MS-06, and Expedition 31 missions. He accumulated a total of 440640 units of time in space.
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Austria
- Active from
- 1732-03-31
- Active to
- 1809-05-31
Discography
- Paukenmesse1986
- Harpsichord Concerto in D Major / Violin–Harpsichord Concerto / “Hornsignal” Symphony1988
- String Quartets - Volume 1 Op.20 No.2, Op.50 No.1, Op.76 No.21988
- Symphony No. 88 / Symphony No. 100, "Military"1988
- The "Clock" Symphony - The "Surprise" Symphony1988
- The Philosopher/ Lamentatione / The Imperial1990
- Symphonies No. 48, No. 59, No. 921991
- Symphony no. 90 in C major / Symphony no. 91 in E-flat major / Symphony no. 92 in G major (Oxford)1991
- Sinfonien - Symphonies 88, 89, 92 'Oxford'1992
- Mass in B‐flat major Hob. XXII:12 “Theresienmesse”; Mass in G major Hob XXII:6 “Sancti Nicolai”1993
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- You Only Look Once: Unified, Real-Time Object Detection
· 2016 · cited 40,334x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,569x
- Naturalistic inquiry
· 1985 · cited 34,838x
- When to use and how to report the results of PLS-SEM
· 2019 · cited 21,529x
- CONFIDENCE LIMITS ON PHYLOGENIES: AN APPROACH USING THE BOOTSTRAP
· 1985 · cited 19,725x
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Key facts
- Born
- Joseph Michael Acabá , ( 1967-05-17 ) May 17, 1967 (age 59) , Inglewood, California , U.S.
- Education
- University of California, Santa Barbara ( BS ) University of Arizona ( MS ) Texas Tech University ( MEd )
- Rank
- Sergeant , USMCR
- Time in space
- 306 days, 34 minutes
- Selection
- NASA Group 19 (2004)
- Total eva time
- 19 hours, 46 minutes
- Missions
- STS-119 Soyuz TMA-04M ( Expedition 31 / 32 ) Soyuz MS-06 ( Expedition 53 / 54 )
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Encyclopedic overview
Joseph Michael Acabá (born May 17, 1967) is an American educator, hydrogeologist, and NASA astronaut. In May 2004, he became the first person of Puerto Rican ancestry to be named as a NASA astronaut candidate, when he was selected as a member of NASA Astronaut Training Group 19. He completed his training on February 10, 2006, and was assigned to STS-119, which flew from March 15 to 28, 2009, to deliver the final set of solar arrays to the International Space Station. He is the first person of Caribbean and Puerto Rican origin, and the twelfth of fifteen people of Ibero-American heritage to have flown to space as a NASA astronaut.
Acabá served as a flight engineer aboard the International Space Station, having launched on May 15, 2012. He arrived at the space station on May 17 and returned to Earth on September 17, 2012. Acaba returned to the International Space Station in 2017 as a member of Expedition 53/54. From 2023 to 2025, Acaba served as the 18th Chief of the Astronaut Office.
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