Bidspirit auction | Astronaut Gerhard Thiele signed Space

Astronaut Gerhard Thiele signed Space Shuttle commemorative FDC PM Cape Caneveral FL 32920 USPS MAR 16 1989 NASA. Missions STS-99. 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.