The Viscount De Winne | |
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| Born | 25 April 1961 Ghent, Belgium |
| Status | Retired |
| Nationality | Belgian |
| Occupation | Test pilot |
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| ESA astronaut | |
| Rank | Brigadier General, Belgian Air Force |
Time in space | 198 days, 17 hours, 34 minutes[1] |
| Selection | 1998 ESA Group |
| Missions | Soyuz TMA-1/TM-34 Soyuz TMA-15 (Expedition 20/21) |
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Frank, Viscount De Winne (born 25 April 1961, in Ledeberg, Belgium) is a Belgian Air Component officer and an ESA astronaut. He is Belgium's second person in space (after Dirk Frimout). He was the first ESA astronaut to command a space mission when he served as commander of ISS Expedition 21. ESA astronaut de Winne serves currently as Head of the European Astronaut Centre of the European Space Agency in Cologne/Germany (Köln).