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Gerhard Paul Julius Thiele (born September 2, 1953) is a German physicist and a former ESA astronaut. He is the father of Die Astronautin candidate Insa Thiele-Eich.

Gerhard Thiele
Born	Gerhard Paul Julius Thiele (1953-09-02) September 2, 1953 (age 68) Heidenheim, Germany
Nationality	German
Occupation	Physicist
Space career
DFVLR/ESA Astronaut
Time in space	11d 05h 39m
Selection	1987 German Group
Missions	STS-99
Mission insignia
Scientific career
Fields	Environmental science
Thesis	Ein kinematisches Boxmodell zur Auswertung der Verteilung anthropogener Spurenstoffe in der Warmwassersphäre des Nordostatlantik (1985)

Early life and education

Born in Heidenheim an der Brenz, he attended the Friedrich-Schiller-Gymnasium in Ludwigsburg. After school he volunteered for the German Navy, serving as Operations/Weapons Officer aboard fast patrol boats. In 1976 he began to study physics at the University of Munich and the University of Heidelberg. He received his doctorate in Heidelberg in 1985 in environmental science.

Career

From 1986 to 1987 he was a postdoc at Princeton University. In 1988 he was selected for the German astronaut team and began basic training at the DLR. In 1990 he was selected as a backup crew member for the German spacelab mission D-2 (STS-55). During the mission, which took part in April 1993, he worked in the Payload Operations Control Center of DLR at Oberpfaffenhofen as the alternate payload specialist.

In 1996, he was selected by the German Space Agency to receive Space Shuttle Mission Specialist training at NASA. In August 1998, he joined the European Space Agency (ESA), into which the German national team was integrated. In 2000, he completed his only spaceflight, the STS-99 Shuttle Radar Topography Mission.

During 2003 and 2004, he trained in Russia as the backup for André Kuipers on the Soyuz TMA-4 mission.

He retired from the European Astronaut Corps in October 2005.

As from 1 April 2010 he became Resident Fellow with the European Space Policy Institute in Vienna, Austria.

Gerhard Thiele has been appointed as the head of ESA's Human Spaceflight and Operations Strategic Planning and Outreach office (HSO-K) effective 1 July 2013.

References

• ESA profile page
• NASA biography
• Spacefacts biography of Gerhard Thiele

На других языках

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[de] Gerhard Thiele (Astronaut)

Gerhard Paul Julius Thiele (* 2. September 1953 in Heidenheim an der Brenz) ist ein deutscher Astronaut.

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- [en] Gerhard Thiele

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[fr] Gerhard Thiele

Gerhard Thiele, né à Heidenheim an der Brenz, en Allemagne, le 2 septembre 1953 est spationaute de l'Agence spatiale européenne (ESA).

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[it] Gerhard Thiele

Gerhard Paul Julius Thiele (Heidenheim an der Brenz, 2 settembre 1953) è un ex astronauta e fisico tedesco.

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[ru] Тиле, Герхард

Ге́рхард Па́уль Ю́лиус Ти́ле (нем. Gerhard Paul Julius Thiele; род. 2 сентября 1953, Хайденхайм-ан-дер-Бренц, Баден-Вюртемберг, ФРГ) — немецкий физик, 9-й астронавт ФРГ, астронавт ЕКА.

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