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David Alexander Wolf (born 23 August 1956) is an American astronaut and a veteran of four Space Shuttle missions and an extended stay aboard the Mir space station.

Wolf was selected as an astronaut candidate in 1990 and first flew aboard mission STS-58 in 1993, a life sciences research mission. In 1997 and 1998, Wolf served a long-duration assignment aboard the Russian space station Mir, launching on STS-86 and returning on STS-89. He also lead the EVA activity on STS-112, an assembly mission for the International Space Station.

While aboard Mir, Wolf became the first American to vote from space, casting a ballot in a 1997 Houston election.

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