Flight record
first and only flightFirst and only flight year 1996.
1Flight
15d 17hTime in space
Not recordedEVA time
0Spacewalks
Flights count launches with a definitive outcome — the same basis as the Stats page.
Biography
Maurizio Cheli (born 4 May 1959) is an Italian air force officer, a European Space Agency astronaut and a veteran of one NASA space shuttle mission. He trained with the United States Air Force and was selected as an astronaut candidate by the European Space Agency in 1992. He holds the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Italian Air Force. He flew aboard STS-75 in 1996 as a mission specialist.
Biography from Launch Library 2.
Background
- Born in
- Zocca
- Education
- University of Houston; Sapienza University of Rome
- Awards
- Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
From Wikidata.
Flights
- Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-75February 22, 1996
Born 1959-05-04 · age 67