photo Frank De Winne
First name and last name Frank De Winne
Date of birth 25.04.1961
Nationality Belgian
Space Agency European Space Agency (ESA)
Status Retired
Type of astronaut Government agency
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_De_Winne

Additional information Frank De Winne

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).