Reinhold Ewald
- I 97 Soyuz TM -24 TM-25/Sojus (1997)
Reinhold Ewald ( born December 18, 1956 in Mönchengladbach ) is a German physicist and astronaut.
Reinhold Ewald made in 1975 on Stiftisches Humanities College Mönchengladbach High School and then studied physics with specialization in experimental physics and got a diploma in 1983. With his doctoral thesis in physics ( " HCO and HCN in S140 and W51 - observations with the Cologne 3- m radio telescope " ) and a minor in Human Medicine, he received his doctorate at the University of Cologne in 1986.
Spaceman activity
From 1990, Ewald was in the German astronaut team of German Research Centre for Aerospace. From November 1990 to March 1992 he was trained in Moscow for the astronauts. The mission Mir92 ( Soyuz TM -13 TM-14/Sojus ) he was substitute for Klaus- Dietrich Flade.
After his return to Germany he was appointed Deputy Head of the Astronaut Office of the DLR and supported the D2 - Spacelab mission on board the Space Shuttle. This space flight STS -55 was carried out by NASA in 1993.
In 1994 he was appointed unmanned and manned mission projects, research in space and planetary research in the areas at the DLR to the program coordinator. From October 1995 he was back in Moscow in training for mission Mir97.
The start to his first space flight took place on 10 February 1997 with the spacecraft Soyuz TM- 25th On board were the Ukrainian commander Vasily Ziblijew and Russian Flight Engineer Alexander Lasutkin. On the Mir space station, they met the Russians Valery Korzun and Alexander Kaleri and the American Jerry Linenger. On the Ewald led me through various experiments. He also recorded under the call sign " DL2MIR " contact with radio amateurs on. During his stay broke on February 23, a fire on the space station, but which could be quickly extinguished. The landing took place on March 2, together with Korsun and Kaleri with the spacecraft Soyuz TM -24.
From February 1999 Ewald part of the European Astronaut Corps of the ESA in Cologne. As a Crew Operations Manager, he was responsible in 2002 for the two ISS space flights with ESA participation, in the years 2003 and 2004, also for two other Sojusflüge.
In 2005, Ewald was a member of the "European Astronaut Corps " (EAC ) and trained for a flight to the International Space Station.
In the astrolabe Mission 2006 Ewald supervised his colleagues Thomas Reiter from the ground from the Columbus Control Centre, located in Oberpfaffenhofen at the German Space Operations Center.
Awards
1992 Reinhold Ewald was awarded by the then President of the Russian Federation, Boris Yeltsin, the Russian "Order of Friendship of Peoples " and 1997, the Russian medal for bravery. In 1997 he also received the Federal Cross of Merit 1st class. In 2003, Reinhold Ewald was awarded in Moenchengladbach the Golden Flower of Reydt, the oldest environmental award in Germany.
Others
Reinhold Ewald is married and has one son and two daughters. He is a member of the Academic Association Rheinstein Cologne and the KDSt.V. Rheno - Franconia Munich and honorary member of the Karate Dojo Mönchengladbach.