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Nicholas James MacDonald Patrick, Ph.D. is a British-born engineer and a NASA astronaut. His flight on the 2006 Discovery STS-116 mission made him the fourth Briton to go into space.
Patrick was born in Saltburn-by-the-Sea, North Yorkshire, England in 1964, and grew up in London and Rye, NY. He became a United States citizen in 1994.