Claude Nicollier is the first astronaut from Switzerland. He has flown on four Space Shuttle missions. His first spaceflight (STS-46) was in 1992,and his final spaceflight (STS-103) was in 1999. He took part in two servicing missions to the Hubble Space Telescope. During his final spaceflight he participated in a spacewalk,becoming the first European Space Agency astronaut to do so during a Space Shuttle mission. In 2000 he was assigned to the Astronaut Office Extravehicular Activity Branch,while maintaining a position as Lead ESA Astronaut in Houston. Nicollier retired from ESA in April 2007.
Rodolfo Neri Vela is a Mexican scientist and astronaut who flew aboard a NASA Space Shuttle mission in the year 1985. He is the second Latin American to have traveled to space after Cuban cosmonaut Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez.
Joan Manuel Serrat Teresa is a Spanish musician,singer and composer. He is considered one of the most important figures of modern,popular music in both the Spanish and Catalan languages.
Enric Valor i Vives was a Valencian narrator and grammarian who made one of the most important contributions to the re-collection and recovery of Valencian lexicography and its standardization in the Valencian Country,Spain.
The Technical University of Madrid or sometimes called Polytechnic University of Madrid is a public university,located in Madrid,Spain. It was founded in 1971 as the result of merging different Technical Schools of Engineering and Architecture,originating mainly in the 18th century. Over 35,000 students attend classes during the year.
Sir Paul Preston CBE is an English historian and Hispanist,biographer of Francisco Franco,and specialist in Spanish history,in particular the Spanish Civil War,which he has studied for more than 50 years. He is the winner of multiple awards for his books on the Spanish Civil War.
Pere Casaldàliga i Pla,known in Portuguese as Pedro Casaldáliga,was a Spanish-born Brazilian prelate of the Catholic Church who led the Territorial Prelature of São Félix,Brazil,from 1970 to 2005. A bishop since 1971,Casaldàliga was one of the best-known exponents of liberation theology. He received numerous awards,including the Catalonia International Prize in 2006. He was a forceful advocate in support of indigenous peoples and published several volumes of poetry.
Cebreros is a municipality of Spain,located in the province of Ávila,part of the autonomous community of Castile and León. As of 2018,it had a population of 3,056. The municipality covers an area of 137.47 km2. It lies at 755 metres above sea level. Located in the east of the province,bordering the Community of Madrid,the Alberche River runs through the south of the municipality.
Ricardo Luis Lorenzetti is an Argentine judge graduated from the National University of the Littoral,Argentina,with a long national and international career. He used to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Argentina (2007–2018),proposed by President Néstor Kirchner and approved by the Senate,assuming his position on December 12,2004,covering the vacancy caused by the resignation of Justice Adolfo Vázquez. On November 7,2006,he was appointed Chief Justice,officiated as of January 1,2007. Currently,he is one of the five Justices of the Supreme Court. He was President of the Commission for the preparation of the Parliamentary Act to reform,update and unify the Civil and Commercial Codes of the Argentine Nation,Presidential Decree 191/2011.
JoséMaría Soler García was a Spanish archaeologist,historian,researcher and folklorist. He is one of the persons who most deeply studied Villena and its surrounding area,since the vast majority of his research was focused on what concerned his hometown.
David Saint-Jacques is a Canadian astronaut with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). He is also an astrophysicist,engineer,and a physician.
Colonel Luca Parmitano is an Italian astronaut in the European Astronaut Corps for the European Space Agency (ESA). He was selected as an ESA astronaut in May 2009. Parmitano is also a Colonel and test pilot for the Italian Air Force. He is the first Italian to command the International Space Station (ISS) during Expedition 61.
An astronaut-politician is a person who has entered politics after traveling to space as an astronaut. Even with the increasing number of individuals who have flown in space,astronauts still maintain a wide degree of public recognition,and those interested in pursuing a career in politics have been able to take advantage of their renown to enter politics at higher levels of elected office.
E-USOC is a centre of Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) specialized in Research and Development (R&D) activities in the fields of space science and technology. On behalf of the European Space Agency,the centre offers the necessary assistance for the preparation,execution and post-flight analysis of space experiments concerning the Fluid Science Laboratory on board the International Space Station,in the european module Columbus. E-USOC is the point of contact for the Spanish user teams developing experiments which require microgravity environment.
Félix Sanz Roldán is a retired Spanish Army general and intelligence officer who served as Director of the National Intelligence Centre (CNI) from July 2009 to July 2019. He served as Chief of the Defence Staff (JEMAD) of the Spanish Armed Forces during the first government of prime minister JoséLuis Rodríguez Zapatero (2004–2008).
JoséMaría de Azcárate y Ristori (1919–2001) was a Spanish art historian,author,researcher,curator,and professor,specializing in medieval Castilian art and Renaissance sculpture.
Michael Ortiz is a dual American-Spanish scientist and researcher in the fields of structural,continuum and computational mechanics and is a Frank and Ora Lee Marble Professor Emeritus of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering at California Institute of Technology. Prior to his arrival at Caltech in 1995,he was Professor of Engineering at Brown University.
Gregorio Millán Barbany was an aeronautical engineer and professor at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Aeronautics of the Technical University of Madrid.
The Agencia Espacial Española is an agency of the Spanish government responsible for the Spanish space program. The agency was officially announced on 27 May 2021 and it became operational in 20 April 2023.
Sara García Alonso is a Spanish cancer researcher and reserve ESA astronaut. Since 2019,she has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre. In 2022,she was chosen as a reserve astronaut in the European Astronaut Corps.
Member of the Order of Friendship (Russian Federation)
