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Umberto guidoni biography

          The first European on board the International Space Station.

          Umberto Guidoni is an Italian astrophysicist, science writer and a former ESA astronaut, being the first European to visit the International Space Station....

          Umberto Guidoni

          Italian astronaut and politician (born 1954)

          Umberto Guidoni (born 18 August 1954 in Rome) is an Italian astrophysicist, science writer and a former ESAastronaut, being the first European to visit the International Space Station.

          He is a veteran of two NASASpace Shuttle missions. He was also a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2004 to 2009, with the Group of the European United Left (GUE/NGL).

          Biography

          Career and spaceflights

          Guidoni earned a doctorate in astrophysics from the University of Rome La Sapienza in 1978 and worked in the Italian Space Agency (ASI) as well as in the European Space Agency (ESA).

          Umberto Guidoni became in NASA astronaut.

        1. Umberto Guidoni.
        2. Umberto Guidoni is an Italian astrophysicist, science writer and a former ESA astronaut, being the first European to visit the International Space Station.
        3. Umberto Guidoni graduated from Classic Liceum 'Gaio Lucilio' in Rome in He received a science degree in Physics and Doctorate in Astrophysics.
        4. Umberto Guidoni, born in Rome in , is an Italian astronaut, astrophysicist and politician.

          5. One of his research projects was the Tethered Satellite System, which was part of the payload of the STS-46 mission. Guidoni trained as an alternate payload specialist for that mission and made his first spaceflight aboard the Space Shuttle ColumbiaSTS-75 in 1996, which included the second flight of the TSS system (TSS-1R).

          In 2001,