Name: Guidoni, Umberto Country: Italy M/F: M Number of Flights: 2

Space Flights Launch Date - Shuttle Landing Date - Shuttle
1. STS-75 February 22, 1996 - Columbia March 9, 1996 - Columbia
2. STS-100 April 19, 2001 - Endeavour May 1, 2001 - Endeavour

Space Flights Descriptions
STS-46
(Backup Crew)
Deployed ESA's European Retrievable Carrier (EURECA)
Deployed the US/Italian Tethered Satellite System (TSS) 1 - Tether jammed at 840 feet preventing the planned deployment of a tethered satellite at 12.5 miles.
1. STS-75 United States Microgravity Payload 3 (USMP-3)
Deployed the US/Italian Tethered Satellite System 1R (TSS-1R) - Tether snapped just short of the full deployment of 12.8 miles.
2. STS-100 ISS Assembly Mission 6A
Delivered the Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) on April 23, 2001 and supplies in the Raffaello Multi-Purpose Logistics Module - Endeavour docked with the International Space Station (ISS) from April 21, 2001 to April 29, 2001.

Return to Master List Italian Astronauts Foreign Astronauts launched by USA
Two Spaceflights Space Shuttle Program - Backup Crew / 1996 (PS)
International Space Station Program - Phase II - 2001

Updated - June 5, 2006