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 Lt. Col. Frank De Winne, a former F-16 pilot with the Belgian Air Force, returned to Earth last November after an eleven-day stint on the International Space Station. He is the second Belgian, but most likely the first F-16 pilot, to have gone to space. De Winne flew into orbit with Russians Sergei Zaletin, Soyuz mission commander, and Yuri Lonchakov, Soyuz flight engineer, on the first ever flight of the new Soyuz model TMA and returned in the old TM-34 Soyuz attached to the Space Station the last six months as an emergency return vehicle. While in space, De Winne (on left) performed several experiments with a newly installed glovebox container for conducting research in microgravity. |
