Daniel T. Barry

Daniel Thomas Barry is an American NASA astronaut born on 30 December 1953 in Norwalk, Connecticut, who combined engineering with medicine. He earned a bachelor of science in electrical engineering from Cornell University in 1975, then a master of engineering and a master of arts in electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton University in 1977 and a Ph.D. in the same field from Princeton in 1980. He received a doctorate of medicine from the University of Miami in 1982 and worked as an assistant professor at a Michigan medical center before NASA selected him in group NASA-14 on 31 March 1992. As a mission specialist he flew STS-72 Endeavour in January 1996, STS-96 Discovery in 1999 and STS-105 Discovery in 2001, for about 30 days in space in all. He retired from NASA in April 2005.