Frank De Winne is a Belgian astronaut of the European Space Agency. De Winne's sole spaceflight has been a brief trip as a flight engineer to the International Space Station in October and November 2002, travelling to the station aboard Soyuz TMA-1 and back aboard Soyuz TM-34. The European Space Agency (ESA; established 1975) is an inter-governmental organisation dedicated to exploration of space with currently 16 memberstates. ... ISS Statistics Crew: 2 As of April 26, 2005 Perigee: 349. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Crew Launched: Sergei Zalyotin (2) Frank De Winne (1) - ESA (Belgium) Yuri Lonchakov (2) Landed ISS Expedition 6 Crew: Nikolai Budarin (1) Kenneth Bowersox (5) - U.S.A. Donald Pettit (1) - U.S.A. Mission Parameters Mass: ? kg Perigee: 193 km Apogee: 235 km Inclination: 51. ... Crew Launched: Yuri Gidzenko (3) Roberto Vittori (1) - ESA (Italy) Mark Shuttleworth (1) - Space Tourist (South Africa) Landed: Sergei Zalyotin (2) Frank De Winne (1) - ESA (Belgium) Yuri Lonchakov (2) Mission Parameters Mass: ? kg Perigee: 193 km Apogee: 247 km Inclination: 51. ...
From January 1994 to April 1995, FrankDeWinne was responsible for the flight safety programme of the 1st Fighter Wing at Beauvechain, Belgium.
From August 1998 to January 2000, FrankDeWinne was the Squadron Commander of the 349th Fighter Squadron at Kleine Brogel Airbase, Belgium.
In January 2000, FrankDeWinne joined the European Astronaut Corps of the European Space Agency (ESA), whose homebase is the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany.
Frank was de eerste astronaut van een bezoekende vlucht die ook in het Amerikaanse deel van ISS mocht werken.
Ook werden er verschillende hart metingen gedaan, hiervoor moest Frank een soort harnas aan trekken, en tijdens de proef werd telkens zijn bloeddruk gemeten, dit alles werd gedaan om te kijken hoe het hart zich houd in gewichtloze toestand.
De Sojoez TM-34 was in totaal 199 dagen in de ruimte geweest.
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