Robert Satcher

Robert Satcher is an American orthopedic surgeon, chemical engineer and former NASA astronaut. Born in Hampton, Virginia, in 1965, he earned a bachelor's degree and a doctorate in chemical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a medical degree through the Harvard-MIT program, so he holds two doctorates. NASA selected him in May 2004 and he finished astronaut candidate training in February 2006. He flew as a mission specialist on Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-129 in November 2009, where he made two spacewalks totalling 12 hours and 19 minutes and acted as the crew's medical doctor. After leaving NASA he joined the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center as an orthopedic oncologist.