Duane G. Carey

American Air Force lieutenant colonel and astronaut

Duane G. Carey made a career in technology at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.

The record lists Duane G. Carey as American Air Force lieutenant colonel and astronaut.

Duane G. Carey was born at Saint Paul in 1957. His recorded nationality is the United States. He was educated at University of Minnesota and U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School.

The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.

He worked as air force officer and astronaut.

His affiliations include National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Technology is judged by adoption: an invention nobody uses is a curiosity.

His work was formally recognised with the Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal.

Working from the United States shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.

Duane G. Carey is still at work, and the final assessment has not been made - the ordinary condition of a living career.

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