Roberto Vittori
Roberto Vittori (Viterbo, October 15, 1964) is an Italian air force officer and an ESA astronaut. He graduated from the Italian Air Force Academy in 1989 and trained in the U.S.. He flew the Tornado in the Italian Air Force before graduating in 1995 from the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School at Patuxent River, Maryland. In 1998, Vittori was selected by the ESA to join the European Astronaut Corps. Since then, he has participated in three spaceflights: the Soyuz TM-34/33 and Soyuz TMA-6/5 taxi flights to the ISS, as well as STS-134, the penultimate mission of the American Space Shuttle Program. He was the final non-American to fly aboard the shuttle.
Spaceflights
No. Mission Position Time Duration
1 Soyuz TM-34 / Soyuz TM-33 Flight Engineer 25.04. - 05.05.2002 9d 21h 25m
2 Soyuz TMA-6 / Soyuz TMA-5 Flight Engineer 15.04. - 24.04.2005 9d 21h 22m
3 STS-134 MSP 16.05. - 01.06.2011 15d 17h 39m
Total 35d 12h 26m
