Thomas Reiter
Thomas Arthur Reiter (born May 23, 1958 in Frankfurt, Germany) is a retired European astronaut and is a Brigadier General in the Luftwaffe. As of 2008, he was one of the top 25 astronauts in terms of total time in space. He served as an onboard engineer for the Euromir 95/Soyuz TM-22 mission to the Mir space station. During his 179 days aboard Mir, he carried out two EVAs and became the first German astronaut to perform a spacewalk.
Spaceflights
No. Mission Position Time Duration
1 Soyuz TM-22 / MIR-20 Flight Engineer 03.09.1995 - 29.02.1996 179d 01h 41m
2 STS-121 / ISS-13 / ISS-14 / STS-116 Flight Engineer 04.07.2006 - 22.12.2006 171d 03h 54m
Total 350d 05h 35m
