Roberto Vittori OMRI | |
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| Born | 15 October 1964 |
| Status | Retired |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Occupation | Test Pilot |
| Space career | |
| ASI/ESA astronaut | |
| Rank |  Generale di Brigata Aerea (Air commodore), Aeronautica Militare (Italian Air Force) |
Time in space | 35d 12h 26m |
| Selection | 1998 ESA Group |
| Missions | Soyuz TM-34/TM-33, Soyuz TMA-6/TMA-5, STS-134 |
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Brigadier Roberto Vittori, OMRI (born 15 October 1964, in Viterbo) is an Italian Air Force officer and an ESA astronaut. After graduating from the Italian Accademia Aeronautica in 1989, Vittori flew in the Italian Air Force. He then trained as a test pilot in the United States.
In 1998, Vittori was selected by the ESA to join the European Astronaut Corps. Since then, he has participated in three spaceflights: the Soyuz TM-34/33 and Soyuz TMA-6/5 taxi flights to the ISS, as well as STS-134, the penultimate mission of the American Space Shuttle Program in 2011. He was the last non-American to fly aboard the Shuttle.