Michel Tognini
French test pilot, engineer, airman and astronaut (born 1949) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Michel Ange-Charles Tognini (born 30 September 1949 in Vincennes, France) is a French test pilot, engineer, brigadier general in the French Air Force, and a former CNES and ESA astronaut who served from 1 January 2005 to 1 November 2011 as head of the European Astronaut Centre of the European Space Agency. A veteran of two space flights, Tognini has logged a total of 19 days in space. Tognini has 4000 flight hours on 80 types of aircraft (mainly fighter aircraft, including the MiG-25, Tupolev 154, Lightning MK-3 and MK-5, Gloster Meteor, and F-104). He is fluent in English and Russian.
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Michel Tognini | |
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Born | (1949-09-30) 30 September 1949 (age 74) Vincennes, France |
Status | Retired |
Nationality | French |
Occupation | Test Pilot |
Space career | |
CNES/ESA astronaut | |
Rank | Brigadier General, French Air Force |
Time in space | 18d 17h 46m |
Selection | 1985 CNES Group 2, 1999 ESA Group |
Missions | Soyuz TM-15/14, STS-93 |
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