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Hij heeft 3800 vlieguren op zijn naam staan in meer dan 50 soorten vliegtuigen en heeft 21 parachutesprongen gemaakt.<\/p>\n<p>In August 1998, L\u00e9opold Eyharts joined ESA&#8217;s European Astronaut Corps.<\/p>\n<p>Zijn eerste missie ging naar het Russische ruimtestation Mir in 1998. Tijdens deze missie voerde hij veel verschillende experimenten uit op het gebied van medisch onderzoek, biologie, natuurkunde en technologie. L\u00e9opolds tweede ruimtevlucht was een missie naar het ISS om het Europese Columbuslaboratorium af te leveren. Die missie duurde bijna twee maanden. L\u00e9opold was de tweede ESA-astronaut die onderdeel werd van de vaste ISS-bemanning. 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