Paolo Nespoli

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Paolo Nespoli
Paolo Nespoli
Country: Italy
Organization: European space agencyESA ESA
selected on August 1, 1998
( EAC group )
Calls: 3 space flights
Start of the
first space flight: 		October 23, 2007
Landing of the
last space flight: 		December 14, 2017
Time in space: 313d 02h 36min
retired on 1st November 2018
Space flights

Paolo Angelo Nespoli (born April 6, 1957 in Milan , Italy ) is a former Italian spaceman .

Paolo Nespoli at the re: publica in Berlin (2012)

education

Nespoli studied aerospace engineering at the Polytechnic University of New York . Here he earned a bachelor's degree in 1988 and a master's degree the following year .

Nespoli joined the Italian Army in 1977 and was initially an instructor at the Parachute Jump School (Scuola Militare di Paracadutismo) in Pisa . He was then trained in special operations commandos in Livorno for two years before he was a member of the multinational peacekeeping forces in Beirut , Lebanon, from 1982 to 1984 .

In 1987 Nespoli left the army and after completing his studies as a design engineer went to Proel Tecnologie in Florence , where he worked on the Tethered Satellite System (TSS) of the Italian space agency .

In 1991 he became a training engineer for the astronauts at the ESA's European Astronaut Center in Cologne . In 1995 he was transferred to ESA's EUROMIR program at ESTEC in Noordwijk , where he prepared the payload and computers for the Russian Mir space station . In 1996 he helped train astronauts and ground crews for the International Space Station (ISS) at the Johnson Space Center in Houston .

Astronaut activity

Selection and training

In July 1998, Nespoli was selected as an astronaut by the Italian space agency ASI and one month later he joined the European astronaut corps . He then completed his astronaut training in the Johnson Space Center as a member of the 17th NASA group.

STS-120

In June 2006, Nespoli was assigned to the STS-120 space shuttle mission , which brought the Harmony module to the International Space Station. In addition, the P6 solar module was relocated to another location on the ISS during this mission . The space flight began on October 23, 2007 and ended after 15 days.

ISS expedition 26/27

Nespoli was a substitute during the preparation for ISS expeditions 24 and 25 .

From December 15, 2010, he spent six months in space as part of the ISS expeditions 26 and 27 . At ESA, this space flight ran under the project name MagISStra . The Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft landed on May 24, 2011. After undocking from the ISS, his task was to photograph the ISS for the first time with the docked space shuttle.

ISS expedition 52/53

Nespoli's Greetings from Space (November 2017)

From June 2015 onwards, Nespoli began preparing for another visit to the ISS. On July 28, 2017, Nespoli took off for the ISS in the Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft together with Sergei Rjasanski and Randolph Bresnik . There he worked as a flight engineer for ISS expeditions 52 and 53 . The return flight to earth took place on December 14, 2017. The mission is called Vita , the Italian word for life , but it also stands for vitality, innovation, technology and ability .

Summary

No mission function Flight period Flight duration
1 STS-120 Mission specialist October 23 - November 7, 2007 15d 2h 23min
2 Soyuz TMA-20 ( ISS-26 and 27 ) Flight engineer December 15, 2010 - May 24, 2011 159d 7h 17min
3 Soyuz MS-05 ( ISS-52 and 53 ) Flight engineer July 28 - December 14, 2017 138d 16h 56min

Private

Paolo Nespoli is a radio amateur with the amateur radio call sign IZ0JPA.

Eponyms

The asteroid (12405) Nespoli is named after him.

See also

Web links

Commons : Paolo Nespoli  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Expedition 24 Prelaunch Preparations. NASA, June 7, 2010, accessed June 15, 2010 .
  2. ↑ ESA astronaut André Kuipers to spend six months on the ISS starting in 2011. ESA, August 5, 2009, accessed on August 5, 2009 (English).
  3. ↑ About the MagISStra mission. ESA, October 8, 2010, accessed October 11, 2010 .
  4. ↑ "The story behind Paolo's Space Station photos" , article at esa.int, accessed on June 13, 2011.
  5. ↑ ESA: Vita: next Space Station mission name and logo. November 24, 2016, accessed November 24, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Third space flight for astronaut Paolo Nespoli IZ0JPA. Amsat UK, August 3, 2015, accessed August 31, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Nespoli, Paolo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nespoli, Paolo Angelo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian astronaut
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Milan