Umberto Guidoni, born August 18, 1954 in Rome, Italy, is the veteran of two space shuttle flights and has the distinction as being the first European aboard the International Space Station. Dr. Guidoni worked for the Italian Space Agency and the European Space Agency. His first mission into space was aboard Columbia (STS-75) in early 1996.
He flew on Endeavour in 2001 (STS-100) with a Canadian, a Russian and four Americans to the International Space Station. Its primary objective was the installation of the Canadarm2 robotic arm onto the ISS.
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