Daniel T. Barry
Daniel Thomas Barry is an American engineer, physician, scientist, roboticist, and retired NASA astronaut. He flew three shuttle missions and performed four during the early station assembly period.
- Born
- December 30, 1953
- Died
- N/A
- Birthplace
- Norwalk, Connecticut,United States
Flights
3
Spacewalks
4
EVA time
25 hours, 49 minutes
In space
30 days, 14 hours, 27 minutes
Bio
Barry's education is unusually broad: electrical engineering at Cornell, graduate engineering work at Princeton, and medicine at the University of Miami. Before NASA, he worked in rehabilitation medicine, bioengineering, signal processing, and prosthetics research.
NASA selected Barry in 1992. He flew STS-72, STS-96, and STS-105, supporting satellite retrieval, early ISS logistics, and station crew rotation; his EVAs helped develop and execute station assembly techniques.
After NASA, Barry founded Denbar Robotics and became known outside spaceflight through robotics, education, and television appearances, including Survivor: Panama. His record now ties those later public roles back to the technical breadth that made him a distinctive astronaut.