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European Space Agency
The European Space Agency (ESA), established in 1975, is an intergovernmental organisation dedicated to the exploration of space, currently with 18 member states. Headquartered in Paris, ESA has a staff of more than 2,000 with an annual budget of about €3.6 billion in 2009.
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Ulf Merbold
Ulf Dietrich Merbold (born June 20, 1941) is the first West German and second German astronaut as well as the first ESA astronaut to fly in space. He holds the distinction of being the first non-US citizen to reach orbit in a US spacecraft. In 1983,...
Date of birth:
- Jun 20, 1941 (age 68 years)
Claudie Haigneré
Claudie Haigneré (formerly Claudie André-Deshays; born 13 May 1957 in Le Creusot, Saône-et-Loire) is a French doctor, politician, and former spationaut with the Centre National d'Études Spatiales (1985-1999) and the European Space Agency (1999-2002)...
Date of birth:
- May 13, 1957 (age 52 years)
Pedro Duque
Pedro Duque Duque (born 14 March 1963) is a Spanish astronaut and a veteran of two space missions.
Duque earned a degree in aeronautical engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) in 1986. He worked for GMV and for the European...
Date of birth:
- Mar 14, 1963 (age 46 years)
Maurizio Cheli
Maurizio Cheli (born 4 May 1959) is an Italian engineer, air force officer, an ESA astronaut and a veteran of one NASA space shuttle mission.
A native of Modena, Chel attended the Italian Air Force Academy and trained as a test pilot. He studied...
Date of birth:
- May 4, 1959 (age 50 years)
Jean-François Clervoy
Jean-François André Clervoy (born 19 November 1958) is a French engineer and an ESA spationaut. He is a veteran of three NASA Space Shuttle missions.
Clervoy was born in Longeville-lès-Metz, France. He has a twin brother, Patrick, a military...
Date of birth:
- Nov 19, 1958 (age 51 years)
Umberto Guidoni
Umberto Guidoni (born in Rome, 18 August 1954) is an Italian politician and a former ESA astronaut. He is a veteran of two NASA space shuttle missions. He was a Member of the European Parliament 2004-2009, representing the Party of Italian...
Date of birth:
- Aug 18, 1954 (age 55 years)
Hans Schlegel
Hans Wilhelm Schlegel (Überlingen, 3 August 1951) is a German physicist, an ESA astronaut, and a veteran of two NASA Space Shuttle missions.
Schlegel, born and raised in Germany, graduated as an international exchange student from Lewis Central High...
Date of birth:
- Aug 3, 1951 (age 58 years)
Frank De Winne
Frank, Viscount De Winne (born April 25, 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...
Date of birth:
- Apr 25, 1961 (age 48 years)
Claude Nicollier
Claude Nicollier (born September 2, 1944 in Vevey, Switzerland) is the first astronaut from Switzerland and has flown on several Space Shuttle missions. He was appointed full professor of Spatial Technology at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de...
Date of birth:
- Sep 2, 1944 (age 65 years)
Wubbo Ockels
Wubbo Johannes Ockels is a Dutch physicist and astronaut. In 1985 he participated in a flight of the space shuttle, making him the first and only Dutch citizen in space, until the flight of Dutch astronaut Andre Kuipers to the International Space...
Date of birth:
- Mar 28, 1946 (age 63 years)
Léopold Eyharts
Léopold Eyharts is a Brigadier General in the French Air Force and an ESA spationaut.
Eyharts was born April 28, 1957, in Biarritz, Northern Basque Country, France. He graduated as an engineer from the French Air Force Academy of Salon-de-Provence...
Date of birth:
- 1957 (age 53 years)
Dirk Frimout
Dirk Dries David Damiaan, Viscount Frimout (born March 21, 1941 in Poperinge, Belgium) is an astrophysicist for the ESA. He flew aboard Space Shuttle mision STS-45 as a payload specialist making him the first Belgian in space.
He is married and has...
Date of birth:
- Mar 21, 1941 (age 68 years)
André Kuipers
André Kuipers (Pronunciation: [αndre kə:ypərs] (help·info)) (born in Amsterdam, October 5, 1958) is a Dutch physician and ESA astronaut. He officially became the second Dutch and the third Dutch-born astronaut upon launch of Soyuz TMA-4 on April 19...
Date of birth:
- Oct 5, 1958 (age 51 years)
Philippe Perrin
Philippe Perrin (Colonel, French Air Force) is a French test pilot and former CNES and European Space Agency spationaut.
Perrin was born 6 January 1963, in Meknes, Morocco, but considers Avignon, Provence, to be his hometown. He entered the French...
Date of birth:
- 1963 (age 47 years)
Gerhard Thiele
Gerhard Paul Julius Thiele (born September 2, 1953) is a former German astronaut.
Born in Heidenheim, he visited the Friedrich-Schiller-Gymnasium in Ludwigsburg. After school he volunteered to the German Navy, serving as Operations/Weapons Officer...
Date of birth:
- Sep 2, 1953 (age 56 years)
Michel Tognini
Michel Ange-Charles Tognini of the French Air Force (born September 30, 1949, in Vincennes, France) is a French test pilot and former CNES and ESA spationaut who currently serves as Head of the Astronaut Division of the European Space Agency. A...
Date of birth:
- Sep 30, 1949 (age 60 years)
Roberto Vittori
Roberto Vittori (Viterbo, October 15, 1964) is an ESA and Italian astronaut.
He graduated from the Italian Air Force Academy in 1989 and trained in the U.S.. He flew the Tornado in the Italian Air Force before graduating in 1995 from the U.S. Naval...
Date of birth:
- 1964 (age 46 years)
Reinhold Ewald
Reinhold Ewald (born December 18, 1956) is a German physicist and ESA astronaut.
Born in Mönchengladbach, Germany, he received diploma in experimental physics from the University of Cologne in 1983 and the Ph.D. in 1986, with a minor degree in human...
Date of birth:
- Dec 18, 1956 (age 53 years)
Thomas Reiter
Thomas Arthur Reiter (born May 23, 1958 in Frankfurt, Germany) is a retired European astronaut and is a Brigadier General in the Luftwaffe. As of 2008, he was one of the top 25 astronauts in terms of total time in space. He lives in Wahnbek (near...
Date of birth:
- May 23, 1958 (age 51 years)
Christer Fuglesang
Arne Christer Fuglesang (born March 18, 1957 in Stockholm) is a Swedish physicist and an ESA astronaut. He was first launched aboard the STS-116 Shuttle mission on December 10, 2006, at 01:47 GMT, making him the first Swedish citizen in space....
Date of birth:
- Mar 18, 1957 (age 52 years)
Marianne Merchez
Marianne Merchez (b. October 25, 1960 in Uccle) is a Belgian doctor from the Catholic University of Louvain and a former European Space Agency astronaut. She is certified in aerospace medicine and in industrial medicine, and she is also a...
Date of birth:
- Oct 25, 1960 (age 49 years)
Paolo A. Nespoli
Paolo Angelo Nespoli (Milan April 6, 1957) is an Italian astronaut. He received his Bachelor's degree in Aerospace engineering in 1988 and his Master's degree in 1989 in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Polytechnic University in New York. Paolo...
Date of birth:
- 1957 (age 53 years)
Timothy Peake
Major Timothy Nigel Peake (born 1972 in Chichester, Sussex) is a British Army Air Corps officer and a prospective European Space Agency astronaut. He is the first British citizen to be selected as an astronaut by ESA and he is scheduled to start 18...
Date of birth:
- 1972 (age 38 years)
Luca Parmitano
Luca Parmitano was born in Paternò, Italy, in 1976.
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Born in Paternò, Italy, on 27 September 1976, but considers Catania his hometown. Married with one daughter. Parmitano is an active scuba diver and enjoys snowboarding, skydiving,...
Date of birth:
- 1976 (age 34 years)
Thomas Pesquet
Thomas Pesquet (born in Rouen, France, in 1978) has been chosen to train to become a European Space Agency astronaut.
He received a master’s degree from the École nationale supérieure de l'aéronautique et de l'espace in Toulouse, France. He worked...
Date of birth:
- 1978 (age 32 years)
