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Personal: Male, married. Born in Vienna, Austria. Doctorate degree from the University of Vienna, 1987. Astronaut Career Astronaut Group: Austrian Commercial Group - 1989. Inactive Entered space service: 6 October 1989. Left space service: 10 October 1991. One of five Austrian candidates in 1992 ESA selection. Made the short list twice, but not selected in 1992 and 1998. Later had his own medical practice. Music (playing bass in a jazz band), reading, skiing, tennis, windsurfing, horseback riding.
Lothaller Chronology 1 October 1989 - Austrian Commercial Cosmonaut Training Group selected.. The group was selected to provide Austrian candidates for the Austromir mission to the Mir space station. 1991 August - Soyuz TM-13A (cancelled). Soyuz TM-13 and TM-14 crews were reshuffled extensively due to commercial considerations and necessity of flying a Kazakh cosmonaut. This was the original crew assignment. Kaleri and Avdeyev were replaced by Kazakh researchers in the final crew. 2 October 1991 - Soyuz TM-13. Manned three crew. Docked with Mir. Mir Expedition EO-10. Transported to the Mir manned orbital station an international crew comprising the cosmonauts A Volkov (USSR), T Aubakirov (USSR) and F. Viehbock (Austria), to conduct joint scientific and technical research with the cosmonauts A. Artsebarsky and S Krikalev. Austria paid $ 7 million for mission. Kazakh cosmonaut added at last minute. Bibliography:
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