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Thomas Reiter

Retired· ESA · German

Thomas Reiter

Thomas Arthur Reiter (born 23 May 1958 in Frankfurt, West Germany) is a retired European astronaut and is a Brigadier General in the German Air Force currently...

Spaceflights

2

Time in space

350days

Spacewalks

3

Spacewalking

14 h 15 m

in total

Spacewalks

Bars drawn to scale, 0 to 6 hours

PE-20 EVA 1
Oct 20, 1995
5 h 16 m
PE-20 EVA 3
Feb 8, 1996
3 h 05 m
Expedition 13 EVA 2
Aug 3, 2006
5 h 54 m

0 h2 h4 h6 h

Flights

Success· Flight 2

STS-121

Launched: Jul 4, 2006 · 18:37 UTC
Rocket: Space Shuttle
From: Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center
Destination: International Space Station
Landed: Dec 22, 2006

Crewmates

Steven LindseyNASA
Mark KellyNASA
Lisa NowakNASA
Michael E. FossumNASA
Piers SellersNASA
Stephanie WilsonNASA

Success· Flight 1

Soyuz TM-22

Launched: Sep 3, 1995 · 09:00 UTC
Rocket: Soyuz-U2
From: 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome
Destination: Mir
Landed: Feb 29, 1996

Crewmates

Yuri GidzenkoRoscosmos
Sergei AvdeyevRoscosmos

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Biography

Thomas Arthur Reiter (born 23 May 1958 in Frankfurt, West Germany) is a retired European astronaut and is a Brigadier General in the German Air Force currently working as ESA Interagency Coordinator and Advisor to the Director General at the European Space Agency (ESA). He was one of the top 25 astronauts in terms of total time in space. With his wife and two sons he lives near Oldenburg in Lower Saxony.

Facts

Agency: ESA
Status: Retired
Nationality: German
Born: May 23, 1958
First flight: Sep 3, 1995

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