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...

Space Station (ISS). The expedition began on 11 October 2009, with Frank de Winne becoming the first ESA astronaut to command a space mission. The handover...

all year. For example, when the Expedition 20 crew (Roman Romanenko, Frank De Winne and Bob Thirsk) returned to Earth in November 2009, for a period of...

Castle of Laeken, and he met with prime minister Alexander De Croo, Dirk Frimout and Frank De Winne, and businesspeople in the space industry. In the spring...

Soyuz; all previous Canadians in space had flown aboard Space Shuttles. Frank De Winne became the first European to be in command of the ISS. The craft and...

first the crew was to be Commander Sergei Zalyotin and Flight Engineer Frank De Winne; however, a report released in February 2002 stated that American musician...

Roscosmos cosmonaut, after Expedition 21 in 2009, when ESA astronaut Frank De Winne was in command. The expedition lasted two months. Source NASA The mission...

Michel Tognini France 1985 CNES Group 18d 17h 45m Soyuz TM-15/14, STS-93 Frank de Winne Belgium 1998 ESA Group 198d 17h 34m Soyuz TMA-1/TM-34, Soyuz TMA-15...

during an F-16 Fighting Falcon test flight. Future Belgian Astronaut Frank de Winne was the first non-American pilot to receive this award in 1997. He managed...

September 2014. Retrieved 26 August 2016. "N° 72–2001: ESA Astronaut Frank De Winne to fly to the International Space Station on Soyuz". European Space...