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Biography of Umberto Guidoni - Astronaut
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Umberto Guidoni (born in Rome, 18 August 1954) is an Italy|Italian astronaut and a veteran of two NASA space shuttle missions. Guidoni earned a doctorate in astrophysics from the University of Rome La Sapienza in 1978 and worked in Italy's space program. One of his research projects was the Tethered Satellite System, which was part of the payload of the STS-46 mission. Guidoni trained as an alternate payload specialist for this mission and made his first spaceflight aboard STS-75 in 1996, which included another test of the TSS system. Guidoni's most recent flight was STS-100 in 2001, a visit to the International Space Station. In 2004 he has been elected Member of the European Parliament in the list of the Party of Italian Communists. astronaut-stub MEP-stub ==External link== * http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/guidoni.html NASA Biography * http://www.votaguidoni.it Electoral site of Umberto Guidoni
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