Hans Schlegel
|
|
HansSchlegel-NASA.jpg
Hans Wilhelm Schlegel (born 3 August 1951) is a German astronaut and a veteran of one NASA space shuttle mission.
Schlegel, born and raised in Germany, graduated as an international exchange student from Lewis Central High School in Council Bluffs, Iowa before studying physics at the University of Aachen in his home country. He conducted research in semiconductor physics before being trained as an astronaut in the late 1980s. He flew as a payload specialist in 1993 aboard space shuttle mission STS-55, which included the German-sponsored Spacelab D-2 research module.
1995-1997 he trained as the backup cosmonaut in the German-Russian Mir'97 mission, and afterwards received additional training in Russia and became qualified as a 2nd board engineer for the space station Mir. Since 1998 he is member of the European Astronaut Corps.
External link
- NASA Biography (http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/schlegel.html)de:Hans Wilhelm Schlegel