Flight record
first and only flightFirst and only flight year 2006.
1Flight
9d 21hTime in space
Not recordedEVA time
0Spacewalks
Flights count launches with a definitive outcome — the same basis as the Stats page.
Biography
Marcos Cesar Pontes (born March 11, 1963) is a Brazilian Air Force pilot, engineer, AEB astronaut and author. He became the first South American and the first Lusophone to go into space when he launched into the International Space Station aboard Soyuz TMA-8 on March 30, 2006. He is the only Brazilian to have completed the NASA astronaut training program, although he switched to training in Russia after NASA's Space Shuttle program encountered problems.
Biography from Launch Library 2.
Flights
- Soyuz-FG | Soyuz TMA-8March 30, 2006 · 02:30 UTC
Born 1963-03-11