Duane Edgar Graveline (MD, MPH) is a medical doctor and former NASA Astronaut. He is one of the 6 scientists selected in 1965 in NASA's fourth group of astronauts for Apollo. He is most famous for being immersed in water for 7 days as part of his zero gravity deconditioning research while a USAF research scientist. He was consultant to US magician David Blaine for his week of water immersion in 2006, predicting Blaines' profound weakness from deconditioning.
Graveline was born on March 2, 1931 in Newport, Vermont. He retired from family practice after twenty-three years and is now a writer of medical and science fiction. His current hobbies include medical consulting in zero gravity deconditioning and galactic cosmic radiation and personal health maintenance.