Gerhard Thiele

Gerhard Thiele

Infobox Astronaut
name =Gerhard Paul Julius Thiele



type =DFVLR/ESA Astronaut
nationality =German
date_birth =September 2, 1953
place_birth =Heidenheim, Germany
occupation =Physicist
selection =1987 German Group
time =11d 05h 39m
mission =STS-99
insignia =|

Gerhard Paul Julius Thiele (born September 2, 1953) is a former German astronaut.

Born in Heidenheim, he visited the Friedrich-Schiller-Gymnasium in Ludwigsburg. After school he volunteered to the German Navy, serving as Operations/Weapons Officer aboard fast patrol boats. In 1976 he began to study physics at the University of Munich and the University of Heidelberg. He received his doctorate in Heidelberg in 1985 in Environmental Physics.

From 1986 to 1987 he was a postdoc at Princeton University. In 1988 he was selected for the German astronaut team and began basic training at the DLR. In 1990 he was selected as a backup crew member for the German spacelab mission D-2 (STS-55). During the mission, which took part in April 1993, he worked in the Payload Operations Control Center of DLR at Oberpfaffenhofen as the alternate payload specialist.

In 1996, he was selected by the German Space Agency to received Mission Specialist training at NASA. In August 1998, he joined the European Space Agency, into which the German national team was integrated. In 2000, he completed his only spaceflight, the STS-99 Shuttle Radar Topography Mission.

During 2003 and 2004, he trained in Russia as the backup for André Kuipers on the Soyuz TMA-4 mission.

He retired from the European Astronaut Corps in October 2005.

External links

* [http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/thiele.html NASA biography]
* [http://www.esa.int/esaHS/ESA9FVZUMOC_astronauts_0.html ESA biography]
* [http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/international/english/thiele_gerhard.htm Spacefacts biography of Gerhard Thiele]


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