Flight record
first and only flightFirst and only flight year 2000.
1Flight
11d 5hTime in space
Not recordedEVA time
0Spacewalks
Flights count launches with a definitive outcome — the same basis as the Stats page.
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.
Background
- Born in
- Heidenheim an der Brenz
- Education
- LMU Munich; Heidelberg University
- Awards
- Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg; Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
From Wikidata.
Flights
- Space Shuttle Endeavour / OV-105 | STS-99February 11, 2000 · 17:43 UTC
Born 1953-09-02 · age 73