![]() Frank De Winne Belgian astronaut of the European space Agency (ESA) |
Frank De Winne
(ON1DWN) Personal data |
Special
honours First non-American pilot to receive the Joe Bill Dryden Semper Viper Award, in 1997, for demonstrating exceptional skills during a flight. Appointed "Officier in de Orde van Oranje Nassau" by the Dutch Queen for shown leadership during operation Allied Force (July 1999). Experience |
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Assignments In August 2001, De Winne took up training at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre (GCTC), Star City, near Moscow. Training includes elements of Basic Training for the International Space Station as well as training as Soyuz board engineer. He prepared for a flight to the ISS on the Taxi flight No. 4 on 28 October 2002. He served as a flight engineer on Soyuz TMA during ascend, and on Soyuz TM during reentry. This was the first flight of the newly designed Soyuz TMA Spacecraft. During his 8-day stay onboard ISS he conducted an international science programme both in the Russian and American segment. He stayed 188 days on board of ISS on May 2009! He became the first European Space Agency astronaut to oversee the International Space Station (commander). This is his second stay on board ISS. |
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Astronat and Radio Amateur Frank De Winne,
ON1DWN, is set to become the first European Space Agency astronaut to oversee the International Space Station. This is his second stay on board ISS (Oct. 2002). ![]() He left on May 27 12:34 Local Belgian time from Kazakhstan, where a Soyuz rocket launched him, Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Robert Thirsk, VA3CSA, to the ISS (). De Winne, who is from Belgium, will be a Flight Engineer as a member of the Expedition 20 Crew. With the next crew rotation ON1DWN will take over as Commander of Expedition 21 and will serve in that position until his return to Earth in November. This will mark the first time that someone other than a Russian or an American has held that post. Mr De Winne is scheduled to spend six months in orbit! More here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8037431.stm or here: http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/OasISS_Mission/ESA0EUZUMOC_0.html The docking of Soyuz TMA-15 capsule was on May 29 at 14:36 Belgian time (12:36UTC). With the landing
of the Soyuz capsule in the Kazakh steppe on Tuesday,
December 1 |
Source: Images ESA
What is
the contribution of Belgium to the ISS programme?
Belgium
makes a considerable contribution via ESA, especially in the
field of the development of new technologies. For instance there
is the development of the Crew Return Vehicle (CRV). Belgium
makes a large contribution to the X-38 programme for the CRV. And
there is science. Although Belgium is a small country it is
paying 10% of the scientific equipment for the European Columbus
laboratory, which will be docked to the ISS in 2004. So
Belgiums efforts are considerable.
Movies of
Frank De Winne:
at ESA
Credits: European space Agency (ESA)
The Belgian
QSO's with Frank De Winne from the ISS (NA1SS)
Sunday 3
November 2002, 09:16 UTC
Frank De Winne Crew Pick, Royal Technical School Belgian Air
Force,
Sint Truiden (ON4RST), Belgium
QSL Direct via ON7AQ
[[[MPEG two-way AUDIO]]]
[[[My recording at my QTH mp3]]]
Frank
De Winne Crew Pick, Euro Space Center, Transinne, Belgium,
2002-11-05 09:00 UTC
QSL Direct via ON7AQ
[[[My recording of this contact]]]
My QSL-card from Frank De Winne
Links
OasISS news BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8037431.stm
OasISS
mission http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/OasISS_Mission/index.html
Frank de Winne here:
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/OasISS_Mission/ESA0EUZUMOC_0.html
ESA Odissea
pages: http://www.esa.int/odissea
Urania: Frank De Winne (Dutch)
Astronet: dutch ienglish
ESA Movies
Frank De Winne: ESA
ARISS info
about Frank De Winne and QSO with ON4BAF at ON4RST (dutch pdf)
About Frank De Winne Mil.be English or Mil.be Dutch
Odissea
official Belgian website: www.odissea.be
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