Frank De Winne Astronaut

Frank, Viscount De Winne (born 25 April 1961 in Ledeberg, Belgium) is a Belgian Air Component officer and an ESA astronaut. He is Belgium's second person in space (after Dirk Frimout). He was the first ESA astronaut to command a space mission when he served as commander of ISS Expedition 21. ESA astronaut de Winne serves currently as Head of the European Astronaut Centre of the European Space Agency in Cologne/Germany (Köln).

Personal facts

Frank De Winne
Birth dateApril 25, 1961
Birth place
Belgium , Ghent
Nationality
Belgium

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Astronaut

missions
Soyuz TM-34
Soyuz TMA-1
Expedition 20
Expedition 21
Soyuz TMA-15
selection
List of astronauts by year of selection
Time in space198 days 17 hours 33 minutes

Frank De Winne on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/international/english/dewinne_frank.htm