Nationality German Name Klaus-Dietrich Flade Other occupation Test pilot Mission insignia | Selection 1990 German Group Time in space 7d 21h 57m Role Astronaut | |
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Born August 23, 1952 (age 72) Budesheim, Germany ( 1952-08-23 ) Similar People Aleksandr Viktorenko, Aleksandr Kaleri, Michel Tognini, Franz Viehbock, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov | ||
Heute Klaus Dietrich Flade 1992
Klaus-Dietrich Flade (born August 23, 1952) is a German pilot and former German Aerospace Center astronaut who visited the Mir space station in 1992 aboard the Soyuz TM-14 mission, returning to Earth a week later aboard Soyuz TM-13.
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Born in Büdesheim, Germany, he joined the German Air Force after school. Educated initially as an airplane engineer, he studied aerospace engineering at Bundeswehr University Munich from 1976 to 1980. Afterwards he became a pilot. He trained as a test pilot from 1988 to 1989. In October 1990, he was selected as part of the German astronaut team for the Euromir '92 flight.
After two years of training, he flew as a research cosmonaut on Soyuz TM-14 in March 1992. After his spaceflight, he returned to the German Air Force. He is now test pilot at Airbus Industrie.
