Happy Birthday! / Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag!
#HappyBirthday to ESA astronaut Hans Schlegel (3 August 1951)! Hans is a veteran of two spaceflights: from 26 April to 6 May 1993 he was Payload Specialist on the Space Shuttle Columbia STS-55 Spacelab-D2 mission. His second spaceflight, STS-122, launched 7 February 2008 on Space Shuttle Atlantis ended on 20 February 2008. The highlight of this mission was the delivery and installation of ESA’s Columbus laboratory. During this mission Hans performed a spacewalk that lasted nearly seven hours. See http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_Spaceflight/Astronauts/Hans_Schlegel