Michel Tognini – Astronaut

Michel Tognini is a Brigadier General and a former fighter and test pilot. He took off on July 27, 1992, as an experimenter on Soyuz TM-15, as part of the Antares mission. He made his second space flight on July 23, 1999, as mission specialist on Columbia STS-93. Michel Tognini was Head of the European Astronaut Center at the European Space Agency in Cologne. Today, he is President of GAMA (Groupement Aéronautique du Ministère de l’Air), co-founder of the “Out Of Atmosphere” foundation and patron of the Vaulx-en-Velin planetarium. Michel Tognini is Commandeur de l’Ordre de la Légion d’Honneur and Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite. He has received the French Aeronautics Medal, the Order of Friendship from the Soviet and Russian authorities, the NASA Spaceflight Medal and the Vladimir Komarov Diploma from the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI). He also received the Hawker Hunter and Patuxent Shield trophies from the Boscombe Down ETPS.

This brainer takes part in round-table discussions, offers improvisation sessions and the following solo talks: