Thomas Reiter
Thomas Arthur Reiter | |
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1992 ESA Group | |
Missions | Soyuz TM-22, (Euromir 95), STS-121/116 (Expedition 13/14) |
Mission insignia | |
Retirement | September 30, 2007 |
Thomas Arthur Reiter (born 23 May 1958 in
Education
He graduated from Goethe-High School in
Astronaut career
He served as an onboard engineer for the
Between 1996 and 1997, he underwent additional training on the
He trained for a six-month mission to the International Space Station (ISS) and was selected for the Space Shuttle Discovery STS-121 mission to join Expedition 13. The launch was initially scheduled for 1 July 2006, but was due to weather delays eventually conducted on 4 July 2006.[2] Discovery then departed on 15 July, leaving Reiter on the ISS continuing to work on Expedition 13. He later became part of Expedition 14 before returning to Earth, again aboard Discovery during the STS-116 mission. Reiter returned after 171 days in space,[3] therefore having been in orbit twice, each time for almost half a year.
His ISS mission was designated Astrolab by the European Space Agency.[4]
On 8 August 2007 Thomas Reiter was named a member of DLR's executive board.
From 1 April 2011 to December 2015 he was Director of Human Spaceflight and Operations at the European Space Agency (ESA), responsible for all crewed and uncrewed mission operations. This included the operation and exploitation of the European International Space Station elements, ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicle, the responsibility for the European Astronaut Centre, EAC, and ESA's uncrewed missions and ground-based mission infrastructure. Today he is working as ESA Interagency Coordinator and Advisor to the Director General.
Honours and awards
- Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2007)
- Bavarian Medal Europe[citation needed] (2008)
- Honorary doctorate of the Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Bundeswehr University Munich (28 June 2010)
- Order of Friendship (Russia, 1996)
- Medal "For Merit in Space Exploration" (Russia, 12 April 2011) – for outstanding contribution to the development of international cooperation in crewed space flight
- Honorary membership in the Danish Astronautical Society[5]
References
This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the
- ^ http://www.bmvg.de: Thomas Reiter promoted to brigadier general by Federal Minister of Defence Franz Josef Jung (german)
- ^ NASA web site on Space Shuttle launch for STS-121. Retrieved 26 October 2021
- ^ "Thomas Reiter". European Space Agency (ESA). Retrieved 26 October 2021.
- ^ Astrolab. European Space Agency (ESA). Retrieved 26 October 2021
- ^ "Æresmedlemmer". Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2014-07-05. Official website of Danish Astronautical Society
External links
www.astronaut-thomas-reiter.de