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Hans Wilhelm Schlegel (born 3 August 1951) is a
Germany|German astronaut and a veteran of one NASA
space shuttle mission.

Schlegel, born and raised in Germany, graduated as
an international exchange student from Lewis
Central High School in Council Bluffs, Iowa before
studying physics at the RWTH Aachen|University of
Aachen in his home country. He conducted research
in semiconductor physics before being trained as
an astronaut in the late 1980s. He flew as a
payload specialist in 1993 aboard space shuttle
mission STS-55, which included the
German-sponsored Spacelab D-2 research module. 

1995-1997 he trained as the backup cosmonaut in
the German-Russian Soyuz TM-25|Mir'97 mission, and
afterwards received additional training in Russia
and became qualified as a 2nd board engineer for
the space station Mir. Since 1998 he is member of
the European Astronaut Corps.

==External link==

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http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/schlegel.htm
l NASA Biography


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