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    Dexter Holland of the Offspring would be pretty high on the list. He has a PhD in molecular biology and is also a licensed pilot.

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    James Williamson of the Stooges became an electrical engineer, working at AMD and then became VP of technical standards at Sony, most notably helping to codify the Blu-ray standard. If something’s going wrong on a spaceship odds are good that you’ll want an electrical engineer.

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    Bruce Dickinson, lead singer in Iron Maiden, can fly planes. He’d be my first choice. And Till Lindemann of Ramstein is a pyrotechnician or something. He could probably figure things out if there were an emergency.

    Then there’s Buckethead. It’s probably his spaceship to begin with.

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    You don’t mention living. Can we have one who passed away. I would say freddy mercury because he would get flash to save every one of us.

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    David Bowie so he can contact ground control.

    Grace Slick and the rest of that band, i.e. starship crew.

    Intergalactic Touring Band, you get the idea.

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    Doesn’t really fit the requirements but actor/singer/guitarist David Peter Capaldi probably still has his old sonic screwdriver tucked in a pocket just in case.

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        Not part of a musical group, but he does appear to be a musician:

        Chris Austin Hadfield (born August 29, 1959) is a Canadian retired astronaut, engineer, fighter pilot, musician, and writer.

        During his free time on Expedition 35, Hadfield recorded music for an album, using the Larrivée Parlor guitar previously brought to the ISS.

        His collaboration with Ed Robertson of Barenaked Ladies and the Wexford Gleeks, Is Somebody Singing?—sometimes shortened I.S.S.—was aired on the CBC Radio program Q and released by CBC Music online on February 8, 2013.

        Hadfield has been credited musically on his brother Dave Hadfield’s albums.

        Chris Hadfield Wikipedia

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          Oh, thank you! I knew he did a cover of Space Oddity, but hadn’t heard of his professional musical endeavors

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    Surely at least one random person is a mechanical engineer or something. I wouldn’t be able to make a good guess, though.