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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Part of
- NASA Astronaut Group 17
- Given name
- Roberto
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Italy
- Place of birth
- Viterbo
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Military branch
- Italian Air Force
- Military rank
- brigadier general
- Image
- Roberto Vittori NASA portrait.jpg
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- Roberto Vittori
- date of birth
- 1964-10-15
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- Soyuz TM-33
- time in space
- 51146
- name in native language
- Roberto Vittori
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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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Roberto Vittori” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.