Paolo Nespoli

Paolo A. Nespoli
OMRI
Born (1957-04-06) 6 April 1957 (age 67)
Milan, Italy
StatusRetired
NationalityItalian
OccupationItalian Army
Space career
ESA astronaut
Time in space
313 days 2 hours 36 minutes
Selection1998 ESA Group
MissionsSTS-120, Soyuz TMA-20 (Expedition 26/27), Soyuz MS-05 (Expedition 52/53)
Mission insignia
Nespoli's voice
recorded aboard the ISS – the first content created in space specifically for use on Wikipedia.[1] [Voice in his native language]

Major Paolo Angelo Nespoli (born 6 April 1957) is an Italian astronaut and engineer of the European Space Agency (ESA). In 2007, he first traveled into space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery as a mission specialist of STS-120. In December 2010 he again traveled into space aboard the Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft as an Expedition 26/27 flight engineer. Nespoli's third spaceflight was on board Soyuz MS-05, which launched in July 2017 for Expedition 52/53. He was also the European Space Agency's oldest active astronaut prior to his retirement in 2019.

  1. ^ Mabbett, Andy (29 November 2017). "Close encounters of the Wikipedia kind: Astronaut is first to specifically contribute to Wikipedia from space". Wikimedia Blog. Retrieved 2017-11-30.