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Personal: Male, Married, Two children. Born in Buedesheim, Germany.

Astronaut Career

Astronaut Group: DLR Group 2 - 1990, German Commercial Group - 1990. Inactive Entered space service: 8 October 1990. Left space service: 25 March 1992. Number of Flights: 1.00. Total Time: 7.91 days.

NAME: Klaus-Dietrich Flade

BIRTHDATE AND PLACE: August 23, 1951, Buedesheim / Germany .

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: 1959-1974 school in Oldenburg, Cochem, Memmingen, Bonn and Schelkingen, 1974-1976 training as an aircraft mechanic while attending at the officers school of the German Air Force, 1976-1980 studied Air/Space Technology at the Armed Forces University in Munich, Degree in Engineering and a Diploma in Chemistry, 1980-1988 Pilot for single and multi jets, high performance aircraft, 1988-1989 trained as a Test Pilot in Maching and at ETPS (Boscombe Down), achieved Test Pilot Class 1. 1988-1990 tested aviation equipment.

FLIGHT EXPERIENCE: Jets: F-104G, Tornado, Alpha-Jet, F-16. Transports: Transall:, Do 228, Do 28. Beside flying these aircraft, he has flown helicopters, including the Bo 105, a diversity of small planes, ultra light aircraft, gliders. He also did Air-to-Air Refuelling of different kinds of aircraft.

SCIENTIFIC SPECIALIZATION: Mass Spectroscopy, gas chromatography and applications of chemical analytical devices, while his main interests are fluid dynamics and EDV.

• 17 March 1992 Flight: Mir 92. Flight Up: Soyuz TM-14. Flight Back: Soyuz TM-13. Flight Time: 7.91 days.

17 March 1992 - Soyuz TM-14. Mir Expedition EO-11. Joint flight with Germany. Docked at the Kvant rear port at 12:33 GMT on March 19.