Frank De Winne

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Frank, Viscount De Winne (born 25 April 1961, in Ledeberg, Belgium) is a Belgian Air Component officer and an ESA astronaut. He is Belgium's second person in space (after Dirk Frimout). He was the first ESA astronaut to command a space mission when he served as commander of ISS Expedition 21. ESA astronaut de Winne serves currently as Head of the European Astronaut Centre of the European Space Agency in Cologne/Germany (Köln).

Biography from Launch Library 2.

Born in

Ghent

Education

Royal Military Academy

Awards

Honorary doctor of the University of Liège; Gouden Penning; honorary doctor of the University of Antwerp; NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal; NASA Space Flight Medal; and 11 more

From Wikidata.

• Soyuz-FG | Soyuz TMA-15Flight Engineer · Success · with Robert Thirsk, Roman RomanenkoMay 27, 2009
• Soyuz-FG | Soyuz TMA-1Flight Engineer · Success · with Sergei Zalyotin, Yury LonchakovOctober 30, 2002

• Expedition 21International Space Station · Commander2009-10-11 – 2009-12-01
• Expedition 20International Space Station · Flight Engineer2009-05-29 – 2009-10-11