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Born: 15 October 1964
Nacionalidad: italiana
Situaci\u00f3n familiar: est\u00e1 casado y tiene tres hijos
Hobbies: soccer, running, swimming and reading<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Roberto se gradu\u00f3 en Ciencias Aeron\u00e1uticas en la Academia de la Fuerza A\u00e9rea italiana en 1989. Recibi\u00f3 entrenamiento b\u00e1sico en la Fuerza A\u00e9rea de EE.UU. en 1990 y se gradu\u00f3 en la Escuela Naval de Pilotos de Prueba de EE.UU. en 1995.<\/p>\n

Roberto es actualmente capit\u00e1n de la Fuerza A\u00e9rea italiana. Ha acumulado unas 2.000 horas de vuelo en 40 tipos de aviones distintos.<\/p>\n

En julio de 1998 fue seleccionado como astronauta por la Agencia Espacial Italiana (ASI), en colaboraci\u00f3n con la ESA, y un mes despu\u00e9s se uni\u00f3 al Centro Europeo de Astronautas de Alemania.<\/p>\n

In 2001, he began training as board engineer at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre (GCTC) in Moscow, to get ready for his first spaceflight. In 2002, Roberto took part in a taxi-flight to the International Space Station. One main goal of this mission was to deliver a new ‘lifeboat’ to the Station to be used by the resident crew if an emergency takes place.<\/p>\n

Roberto realiz\u00f3 la segunda misi\u00f3n a la Estaci\u00f3n Espacial Internacional en 2005. Como ingeniero de vuelo para el ascenso y descenso, desempe\u00f1\u00f3 un papel importante en la conducci\u00f3n y el acoplamiento de la nave. Una vez a bordo de la ISS, desarroll\u00f3 un programa experimental intensivo.<\/p>\n

En total, Roberto ha pasado 19 d\u00edas, 18 horas y 47 minutos en el espacio.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Born: 15 October 1964Nationality: ItalianFamily: married and has three childrenHobbies: soccer, running, swimming and reading Roberto graduated from the Italian Air Force Academy in 1989 with a degree in Aeronautical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"esa_banner_image":"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2002\/04\/roberto_vittori_enters_the_iss3\/17865157-3-eng-GB\/Roberto_Vittori_enters_the_ISS.jpg","esa_banner_description":"","esa_banner_credit":"ESA","esa_banner_licence":"ESA Standard Licence","esa_banner_detail_url":"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2002\/04\/Roberto_Vittori_enters_the_ISS3","esa_external_url":"","esa_external_new_window":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":true},"categories":[28,10,13],"tags":[2],"panel":[],"language":[],"age":[],"duration":[],"resource_type":[],"audience":[],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronauts","category-learn","category-life-in-space","tag-background-article"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2090,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions\/2090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947"},{"taxonomy":"panel","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/panel?post=947"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=947"},{"taxonomy":"age","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/age?post=947"},{"taxonomy":"duration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/duration?post=947"},{"taxonomy":"resource_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource_type?post=947"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=947"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}