Dirk Frimout
Dirk Dries David Damiaan, Viscount Frimout (born 21 March 1941 in Poperinge, Belgium) is an astrophysicist for the European Space Agency. He flew aboard NASA Space Shuttle mission STS-45 as a payload specialist, making him the first Belgian in space. Received an Engineer\'s degree in electrical engineering at University of Ghent in 1963; a PhD in applied physics from University of Ghent in 1970. Frimout is an ESA staff member. He is a senior engineer in the Payload Utilization Department of the Columbus Directorate, responsible for the ESA support to the European experiments on ATLAS-1, and the Microgravity Measurement Assembly to be flown on D2.
Spaceflights:
No. Mission Position Time Duration:
1 STS-45 Atlantis PS 24.03. - 02.04.1992 8d 22h 09m
Total: 8d 22h 09m
