Roberto Vittori

Roberto Vittori (Viterbo, October 15, 1964 - ) is an ESA astronaut from Italy. He graduated from the Italian Air Force Academy in 1989 and trained in the US. He flew the Tornado in the Italian Air Force before graduating in 1995 from the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School at Patuxent River, Maryland. He served at the Italian Test Center as a project pilot for the development of the new European aircraft, the EF2000. He has logged over 1700 hours in over 40 different aircraft to include F-104, Tornado GR1, F-18, AMX, M-2000, G-222 and P-180.

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