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Roberto Maria Taccino Italian Payload specialist Cosmonaut. Born 19 February 1955.

Personal: Male. Born in Italy. Civilian Doctor of medicine. Professor

Astronaut Career

Astronaut Group: Italian Space Agency Group - 1990. Inactive Entered space service: 1990. Left space service: 1993. Selected by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) as one of the five Italian astronaut candidates for a European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut selection.

Taccino Chronology

1 May 1989 - Italian Space Agency Astronaut Training Group selected.. Italian astronauts trained for flights to the Mir space station.

Bibliography:

Becker, Joachim, http://www.spacefacts.de/, "Space Facts Web Site", Web Address when accessed: http://www.spacefacts.de/.

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