In the history of exploration, Duane Graveline is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Duane Graveline as American astronaut (1931-2016).
Duane Graveline was born at Newport in 1931. His recorded nationality is United States.
Modern exploration moved to the places the body cannot survive unaided: the deep ocean, the upper atmosphere and orbit, reached by engineering as much as by nerve.
He is recorded as military officer, physician and astronaut.
Distance was the hardest problem of the pre-modern world, and it was solved by people willing to risk it.
Duane Graveline died in 2016, aged 85. The routes and charts outlived the journey, which is how exploration is actually measured.
Achievements
- Recorded as military officer, physician and astronaut
