Dr. Duane Graveline

Dr. Duane Graveline is a family doctor, aerospace medical research scientist, USAF flight surgeon and NASA astronaut, Duane Graveline MD MPH was born and raised in Newport, Vermont. He vividly recalls his idyllic life on a dairy farm and his eight years at the nearby one-room school where the same teacher guided him from the alphabet through algebra. Following graduation from the Vermont College of Medicine in 1955, Dr. Graveline interned at the famed Walter Reed Army hospital during the time our space pioneers were just beginning to study the medical effects of space flight. Becoming a flight surgeon and doing space medical research was almost inevitable to this young doctor with stars in his eyes. Soon came the Today show, international recognition for his research on zero gravity deconditioning, his unique position as medical analyst of the Soviet bioastronautics program, assignment as NASA flight controller and finally, in 1965, his selection as NASA scientist astronaut. Graveline still is affiliated with the space program as consultant to the special cosmic radiation hazards to man of “return to the moon and on to Mars.”