[Legacy Report] An evening with ESA astronaut Hans Schlegel
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European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Hans Schlegel is in Adelaide to take part in National Space Camp Woomera (NSCW) 2011, and joins us for his only public appearance in Adelaide. Join Hans as he shares his experiences of being an astronaut, including training as an engineer on the Russian Space Station MIR, working on Space Shuttle Columbia as a Payload Specialist on the German Spacelab D-2, and taking a 7 hour spacewalk during the 2006 mission to deliver the ESA Columbus Laboratory to the International Space Station. A man of many talents, Hans has served as a paratrooper with the Federal Armed Forces (Germany), worked as an experimental solid state physicist, is a certified research diver and holds a private pilot’s license, including aerobatics. Hans' earthly interests include skiing, scuba diving, flying and being a handyman.
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