Paolo Nespoli

Paolo A. Nespoli OMRI
Born	(1957-04-06) 6 April 1957 (age 67) Milan, Italy
Status	Retired
Nationality	Italian
Occupation	Italian Army
Space career
ESA astronaut
Time in space	313 days 2 hours 36 minutes
Selection	1998 ESA Group
Missions	STS-120, Soyuz TMA-20 (Expedition 26/27), Soyuz MS-05 (Expedition 52/53)
Mission insignia
Nespoli's voice recorded aboard the ISS – the first content created in space specifically for use on Wikipedia.[1] [Voice in his native language]

Major Paolo Angelo Nespoli (born 6 April 1957) is an Italian astronaut and engineer of the European Space Agency (ESA). In 2007, he first traveled into space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery as a mission specialist of STS-120. In December 2010 he again traveled into space aboard the Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft as an Expedition 26/27 flight engineer. Nespoli's third spaceflight was on board Soyuz MS-05, which launched in July 2017 for Expedition 52/53. He was also the European Space Agency's oldest active astronaut prior to his retirement in 2019.