Thomas Reiter

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Thomas Arthur Reiter (born 23 May 1958 in Frankfurt, West Germany) is a retired European astronaut and is a Brigadier General in the German Air Force currently working as ESA Interagency Coordinator and Advisor to the Director General at the European Space Agency (ESA). He was one of the top 25 astronauts in terms of total time in space. With his wife and two sons he lives near Oldenburg in Lower Saxony.

Biography from Launch Library 2.

Born in

Frankfurt

Education

University of the Bundeswehr Munich

Awards

Aachener Ingenieurpreis; Medal "For Merit in Space Exploration"; honorary degree; Medal for outstanding service to Bavaria in a united Europe; Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany; and 5 more

From Wikidata.

• Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-121Mission Specialist · Success · with Lisa Nowak, Mark Kelly, Michael E. Fossum, Piers Sellers, Stephanie Wilson, Steven LindseyJuly 4, 2006
• Soyuz-U2 | Soyuz TM-22Flight Engineer · Success · with Sergei Avdeyev, Yuri GidzenkoSeptember 3, 1995

• Expedition 13 EVA 25h 54m2006-08-03
• PE-20 EVA 33h 5m1996-02-08
• PE-20 EVA 15h 16m1995-10-20

• Expedition 14International Space Station · Flight Engineer2006-09-18 – 2007-04-21
• Expedition 13International Space Station · Flight Engineer2006-04-01 – 2006-09-28
• Mir EO-20Mir · Flight Engineer1995-09-03 – 1996-02-29