Home > Terms > English, UK (UE) > Duane Graveline

Duane Graveline

Duane Edgar Graveline (MD, MPH) is an American physician and was a NASA astronaut. He was one of the six scientists selected in 1965, in NASA's fourth group of astronauts, for the Apollo program. He is best known for being immersed in water for seven days as part of his zero gravity deconditioning research while a United States Air Force (USAF) research scientist. He was consultant to magician David Blaine for Blaine's week of water immersion in 2006, correctly predicting Blaine's profound weakness from deconditioning.

This is auto-generated content. You can help to improve it.
0
Collect to Blossary

Member comments

You have to log in to post to discussions.

Terms in the News

Featured Terms

Harry8L
  • 0

    Terms

  • 0

    Blossaries

  • 1

    Followers

Industry/Domain: Politics Category: Protest

Emo killings

A series of killings targeting Iraqi 'gay' and 'emo' youth. Killings highlight the inability of the Iraqi government to protect the younger generation ...

Contributor

Featured blossaries

Highest Paid Cricketers

Category: Sports   1 10 Terms

Parkinson’s Disease

Category: Health   1 20 Terms