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Roberto Vittori

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Italian astronaut

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Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1968-04-26

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Key facts

Born
( 1964-10-15 ) 15 October 1964 (age 61) , Viterbo , Lazio , Italy
Occupation
Test Pilot
Status
Retired
Rank
Generale di Brigata Aerea (Air commodore), Aeronautica Militare (Italian Air Force)
Time in space
35d 12h 26m
Selection
1998 ESA Group , NASA Group 17 (1998)
Missions
Soyuz TM-34 / Soyuz TM-33 ( ISS EP-3 ), Soyuz TMA-6 / Soyuz TMA-5 ( ISS EP-8 ), STS-134

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Encyclopedic overview

Brigadier Roberto Vittori, OMRI (born 15 October 1964, in Viterbo) is an Italian Air Force officer and an ESA astronaut. After graduating from the Italian Accademia Aeronautica in 1989, Vittori flew in the Italian Air Force. He then trained as a test pilot in the United States.

In 1998, Vittori was selected by the ESA to join the European Astronaut Corps. Since then, he has participated in three spaceflights: the Soyuz TM-34/33 and Soyuz TMA-6/5 taxi flights to the ISS, as well as STS-134, the penultimate mission of the American Space Shuttle Program in 2011. He was the last non-American to fly aboard the Shuttle.

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