Career record
Flights
1
Launches with a definitive outcome — the Stats basis
Career time in space
11d 5h
Career EVA time
under a minute
Spacewalks
0
Biography
Dr. Gerhard Paul Julius Thiele (born September 2, 1953) is a German physicist and a former ESA astronaut. In 1996, he was selected by the German Space Agency to receive Space Shuttle Mission Specialist training at NASA. In August 1998, he joined the European Space Agency (ESA), into which the German national team was integrated. In 2000, he completed his only spaceflight, the STS-99 Shuttle Radar Topography Mission.
Biography from Launch Library 2.
Launches
- Space Shuttle Endeavour / OV-105 | STS-99 — Mission Specialist · Success · February 11, 2000 · 17:43 UTC
Born 1953-09-02