Generale di Brigata Aerea (Air commodore), Aeronautica Militare (Italian Air Force)
Time in space
35d 12h 26m
Selection
1998 ESA Group
Missions
Soyuz TM-34/TM-33, Soyuz TMA-6/TMA-5, STS-134
Mission insignia
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.
Brigadier RobertoVittori, OMRI (born 15 October 1964, in Viterbo) is an Italian Air Force officer and an ESA astronaut. After graduating from the Italian...
1966), New Caledonian politician RobertoVittori (born 1964), Italian air force officer and astronaut Umberto Vittori (1906–1977), Italian rower Vittorini...
Blanchard Richard Garriott Richard Lindzen Rik Jaeken Robert C. Michelson RobertoVittori Rod Holt Ron Przybylinski Ronald Parise Ronnie Milsap Ross Gunn Rudy...
returned to Earth on 24 April 2005 with Leroy Chiao and ESA astronaut RobertoVittori aboard the Soyuz TMA-5 spacecraft. The Soyuz capsule landed at 22:08...
make both. The first Italian in space was Franco Malerba in 1992. RobertoVittori and Paolo Nespoli have both made three orbital spaceflights in their...
TM-34 Launch: April 25, 2002 Time docked: ~196 days Yuri Gidzenko RobertoVittori Mark Shuttleworth All three crew returned on Soyuz TM-33 after 8 days...
was brought in 2011 to the International Space Station by astronaut RobertoVittori on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy...
for emergency evacuation. European Space Agency Italian Astronaut RobertoVittori launched with Expedition 11 on the Soyuz TMA-6 spacecraft and returned...
RobertoVittori of Italy launched to the Station with the Expedition 11 crew and spent eight days onboard performing scientific experiments. Vittori returned...
Schlegel (Germany), Robert Thirsk (Canada), Bjarni Tryggvason (Canada), RobertoVittori (Italy) This group includes Barbara Morgan, who was the backup "Teacher-In-Space"...
Cheli, flew with Umberto Guidoni as a mission specialist on STS-75. RobertoVittori, has flown on multiple missions to the ISS: Soyuz TM-33, Soyuz TM-34...
Agency astronaut RobertoVittori, Italian air force officer and an ESA astronaut Robert Alexander (1910–1943), Irish sportsman Roberto Baggio (born 1967)...
Global Information
Generale di Brigata Aerea (Air commodore), Aeronautica Militare (Italian Air Force)
