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In 1992 werd hij geselecteerd om bij het Europese Astronautencorps te komen in het Europese Astronautencentrum (EAC) in Duitsland.<\/p>\n<p>In 1981 heeft Christer deelgenomen aan de Wereldkampioenschappen Frisbee en hij nam zelfs een van zijn eigen frisbees mee naar het internationale ruimtestation!<\/p>\n<p>In 2006 vloog hij als missiespecialist mee naar het internationale ruimtestation op de Space Shuttle Discovery. Hij werd de eerste Zweedse astronaut in de ruimte. Tijdens deze missie, die Celsius heette, nam Christer deel aan drie ruimtewandelingen.<\/p>\n<p>Christer is nu het hoofd van het onderdeel Wetenschap en Toepassing bij de afdeling Bemande ruimtevaart en Exploratie van ESA.<\/p>\n<p>Hij heeft in totaal 26 dagen, 17 uur en 38 minuten in de ruimte doorgebracht!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born: 18 March 1957Nationality: SwedishFamily: married and has three childrenHobbies: sailing, skiing, frisbee, games and reading After graduating from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm in 1981, Christer worked [&hellip;]<\/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\/2006\/08\/christer_fuglesang_portrait3\/17883140-2-eng-GB\/Christer_Fuglesang_portrait.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\/2006\/08\/Christer_Fuglesang_portrait3","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-949","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\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2092,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions\/2092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949"},{"taxonomy":"panel","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/panel?post=949"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=949"},{"taxonomy":"age","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/age?post=949"},{"taxonomy":"duration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/duration?post=949"},{"taxonomy":"resource_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource_type?post=949"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=949"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}