Clemens Lothaller

Clemens Lothaller (born May 8, 1963 in Vienna , Austria ) is an Austrian doctor. He was a substitute for the Soyuz TM-13 space flight in 1991.

Space program

In October 1981 Lothaller began studying medicine at the University of Vienna . Shortly after starting his studies in 1982 he became a member of the Catholic student association KÖStV Austria Vienna in the ÖCV . After obtaining his doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1987, Lothaller was selected on October 6, 1989 as a cosmonaut of the Austrian group for the flight of a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft to the Soviet Mir space station . Alongside Alexander Stepanowitsch Viktorenko (commandant) and Talghat Mussabajew (flight engineer), he was on the substitute team for Austrian Franz Viehböck , but was not used and left the program on October 10, 1991.

In 1992, from July to November, Lothaller was one of five candidates from Austria in ESA's selection of astronauts for the planned European space laboratory. In 1998 he was on a list of 25 candidates for the European Astronauts Board Selection (EASB). It was not used in either program.

Awards

The Austrian Federal President Kurt Waldheim awarded Lothaller and Viehböck the Great Golden Decoration of Honor of the Republic of Austria after the Soyuz Mission . The two cosmonauts were also honored by the Soviet Union: On November 4, 1991, in Moscow, President Gorbachev awarded them the Order of Friendship of Peoples , the highest honor intended for foreigners.

Others

Clemens Lothaller runs a neurosurgical practice in Vienna and works as a senior physician in the neurosurgical department of the Donauspital .

See also

• List of manned missions to the Mir space station
• List of Soyuz missions

Web links

• Short biography on www.spacefacts.de
• Information on the Soyuz TM-13 flight at www.austromir.at