Michel Tognini
Michel Ange-Charles Tognini (born September 30, 1949, in Vincennes, France) is a French test pilot, astronaut, educator, writer and administrator. Tognini is Head of the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) of the European Space Agency (ESA) in Cologne, Germany.[1]
Tognini graduates École de l'Air.[2]
Awards and honors
- Medal of Aeronautics[3]
- Chevalier de Ordre National du Mérite
- Commander dans l'Ordre de la Légion d'Honneur
- Soviet Order of Friendship between the People
- Russian Order of Friendship between the People
Michel Tognini Media
The official crew patch for the Russian Soyuz TM-15 mission, which delivered the EO-12 and Antares crews to the space station Mir.
The official crew patch for the Russian Soyuz TM-14 mission, which delivered the Mir EO-11 crew and Klaus-Dietrich Flade (MIR'92) to the space station Mir.
CNES astronaut Michel Tognini works with a nitrogen freezer on the STS-93 Space Shuttle mission, which supported the Plant Growth Investigations in Microgravity (PGIM) and Biological Research in Canisters (BRIC) experiments on this mission which took place in 1999. This mission also launched the Chandra X-ray telescope.
References
- ↑ Usa, Ibp. (2007). European Space Agency (ESA) Handbook, p. 35[dead link].
- ↑ (in French)Air Salon Archived 2016-03-06 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Association of Space Explorers, Michel Tognini Archived 2011-10-31 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2012-7-10.
Other websites
Media related to Michel Tognini at Wikimedia Commons