Scott E. Parazynski
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Scott Parazynski is an American physician and former NASA astronaut. He flew five Space Shuttle missions between 1994 and 2007 and made seven spacewalks. In October 2007, on STS-120, he made an unplanned spacewalk on the end of a boom to repair a torn solar array on the International Space Station. In 2009 he reached the summit of Mount Everest, the first person to have both flown in space and stood on the summit. He retired from NASA in 2009.
- Born
- 28 July 1961
- Country
- United States
- Flights
- 5: STS-66 (1994), STS-86 (1997), STS-95 (1998), STS-100 (2001), STS-120 (2007)
- Time in space
- 57 days 15 hours
Data as of 2 November 2026. Source: Wikidata (CC0). All people who have flown in space.
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