Roberto Vittori

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Roberto Vittori (October 15, 1964 - ) is an ESA astronaut from Viterbo, Italy. He graduated from the Italian Air Force Academy in 1989 and trained in the US. He flew the Tornado in the Italian Air Force before graduating from the US Navy Test Pilot School in 1995. He served at the Italian Test Center as a project pilot for the development of the new European aircraft, the EF2000. He has logged over 1700 hours in over 40 different aircraft to include F-104, Tornado GR1, F-18, AMX, M-2000, G-222 and P-180.

In August 1998, he reported to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Following a period of training and evaluation, Vittori served in various technical assignments within the Astronaut Office. From April 25 to May 5, 2002, Roberto Vittori participated in a taxi-flight to the International Space Station (ISS), under an agreement between the Russian Rosaviakosmos, the Italian Space Agency, ASI and ESA. During his stay aboard ISS he worked alongside the resident crew overseeing four European scientific experiments. The mission successfully delivered a new "lifeboat" to the Station for use by resident crews in the event of an on-board emergency.

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