Space · astronaut
Frank De Winne
EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY
BELGIAN
RETIRED
Career
Time in space
198 d 17 h
Spacewalks
0
Flights
2
2 landings
Status
Retired
Agency
European Space AgencyNationality
BelgianBorn
25 Apr 1961First flight
30 Oct 2002Most recent flight
27 May 2009Type
GovernmentLinks
WikipediaBiography
Frank, Viscount De Winne (born 25 April 1961, in Ledeberg, Belgium) is a Belgian Air Component officer and an ESA astronaut. He is Belgium's second person in space (after Dirk Frimout). He was the first ESA astronaut to command a space mission when he served as commander of ISS Expedition 21. ESA astronaut de Winne serves currently as Head of the European Astronaut Centre of the European Space Agency in Cologne/Germany (Köln).
Flight log
Flights
| No. | Flight | Date |
|---|---|---|
| 02 | Soyuz-FG | Soyuz TMA-15 | 27 May 2009 |
| 01 | Soyuz-FG | Soyuz TMA-1 | 30 Oct 2002 |
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Source The Space Devs — Launch Library 2
Last checked 29 Sept 2026