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Born: 6 April 1957
Nationality: Italian
Hobbies: scuba diving, piloting aircraft, assembly of computer hardware, electronic equipment and computer software<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Paolo est titulaire d\u2019une licence en ing\u00e9nierie a\u00e9rospatiale et d\u2019une ma\u00eetrise en sciences a\u00e9ronautiques et astronautiques. En 1977, il int\u00e8gre l\u2019arm\u00e9e italienne et devient instructeur parachutiste. Il est \u00e9galement ma\u00eetre parachutiste, moniteur de saut et op\u00e9rateur des forces sp\u00e9ciales.<\/p>\n

In 1991 he joined ESA’s European Astronaut Centre in Germany. As an astronaut training engineer, he helped with the basic training for the European astronauts.<\/p>\n

In July 1998, he was selected as an astronaut by the Italian space agency (ASI), and one month later, joined ESA’s European Astronaut Corps in Germany.<\/p>\n

Paolo worked at NASA’s Johnson Space Centre and at the Cosmonaut Training Centre in Russia, before flying as Mission Specialist to the International Space Station on board the Space Shuttle Discovery.<\/p>\n

Depuis novembre 2008, Paolo fait partie de l\u2019Exp\u00e9dition 26\/27. Cette mission de longue dur\u00e9e \u00e0 destination de la Station spatiale internationale devrait se d\u00e9rouler de novembre 2010 \u00e0 mai 2011. Il a r\u00e9cemment entam\u00e9 sa formation ISS en Russie et aux \u00c9tats-Unis.<\/p>\n

Paolo\u2019s duties as a flight engineer during his MagISStra mission included scientific experiments and technology demonstrations, as well as performing educational activities.<\/p>\n

Paolo a pass\u00e9 au total 15 jours, 2 heures et 23 minutes dans l\u2019espace.<\/p>\n

En septembre 2013, Paolo a pris part \u00e0 la mission CAVES en compagnie de cinq autres astronautes. Pendant deux semaines, ils ont v\u00e9cu ensemble et effectu\u00e9 plusieurs exp\u00e9riences scientifiques dans l\u2019immense r\u00e9seau souterrain de Sa Grutta, en Sardaigne (Italie).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Born: 6 April 1957Nationality: ItalianHobbies: scuba diving, piloting aircraft, assembly of computer hardware, electronic equipment and computer software Paolo has a degree in Aerospace Engineering and a Master of Science […]<\/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\/2007\/11\/esa_astronaut_paolo_nespoli_inside_the_station_s_quest_airlock2\/17909604-2-eng-GB\/ESA_astronaut_Paolo_Nespoli_inside_the_Station_s_Quest_Airlock.jpg","esa_banner_description":"","esa_banner_credit":"NASA","esa_banner_licence":"ESA Standard Licence","esa_banner_detail_url":"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2007\/11\/ESA_astronaut_Paolo_Nespoli_inside_the_Station_s_Quest_Airlock2","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-610","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\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1753,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions\/1753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610"},{"taxonomy":"panel","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/panel?post=610"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=610"},{"taxonomy":"age","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/age?post=610"},{"taxonomy":"duration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/duration?post=610"},{"taxonomy":"resource_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource_type?post=610"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=610"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}