Roberto Vittori, born October 15, 1964 in Viterbo, Lazio, Italy, is an astronaut with the European Space Agency and a veteran of three space flights.
His first mission into space was aboard Soyuz TM-34, launched in April 2002 as flight engineer to the International Space Station. He returned to Earth about two weeks later on Soyuz TM-33.
His second trip into space was aboard Soyuz TMA-6, launched in April 2005 as flight engineer to the ISS. He returned to Earth aboard Soyuz TMA-5 later that month. He became the first European astronaut to visit the ISS twice.
His third flight was aboard Endeavour (STS-134) May-June 2011 as mission specialist to the ISS, the next to last flight of the space shuttle project. Vittori was the last non-American to fly on a space shuttle.
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