Michel Tognini

Michel Ange-Charles Tognini (born September 30, 1949, in Vincennes, France) is a French test pilot, astronaut, educator, writer and administrator. Tognini is Head of the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) of the European Space Agency (ESA) in Cologne, Germany.[1]

Michel Tognini

Tognini graduates École de l'Air.[2]

Awards and honors
  • Medal of Aeronautics[3]
  • Chevalier de Ordre National du Mérite
  • Commander dans l'Ordre de la Légion d'Honneur
  • Soviet Order of Friendship between the People
  • Russian Order of Friendship between the People

References
  1. Usa, Ibp. (2007). European Space Agency (ESA) Handbook, p. 35.
  2. (in French)Air Salon Archived 2016-03-06 at the Wayback Machine
  3. Association of Space Explorers, Michel Tognini Archived 2011-10-31 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2012-7-10.

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