Nationality Slovak Name Ivan Bella Other occupation Pilot Mission insignia Rank Colonel | Selection 1998 Cosmonaut Group First space flight Soyuz TM-28 Time in space 7d 21h 56min | |
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Born 25 May 1964 (age 59)
Brezno, Czechoslovakia (present Slovakia) ( 1964-05-25 ) Similar People Viktor Afanasyev, Jean‑Pierre Haignere, Sergei Avdeyev, Vladimir Remek, Yuri Baturin | ||
Space missions Soyuz TM-28, Soyuz TM-29 | ||
Asust a todos ivan bella se desplom en pleno campo de juego
Ivan Bella (born 25 May 1964 in Brezno, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia)) is a Slovak Air Force officer who became the first Slovak citizen to fly in space. He participated in an eight-day joint Russian-French-Slovak mission to the Mir space station in 1999.
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- Asust a todos ivan bella se desplom en pleno campo de juego
- Ivan bella
- Spaceflight
- Diplomatic career
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Ivan bella
Spaceflight
Bella began training as a research cosmonaut on 25 March 1998. He completed his training successfully at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in August of the same year.
Bella launched along with mission commander Viktor Afanasyev and flight engineer Jean-Pierre Haigneré on the Soyuz TM-29 mission on 20 February 1999. TM-29 arrived at Mir on 22 February. While on board the station Bella performed various scientific experiments as well as experiments involving the possibility of survival of Japanese quails during long flights. Bella spent just over a week in space and returned to earth on 28 February aboard Soyuz TM-28 along with fellow crew member Gennady Padalka.
Diplomatic career
In 2004, Bella was appointed to serve as a military attaché for Slovakia in Moscow, Russia.
