The Most Famous
ASTRONAUTS from Switzerland
This page contains a list of the greatest Swiss Astronauts. The pantheon dataset contains 524 Astronauts, 1 of which were born in Switzerland. This makes Switzerland the birth place of the 27th most number of Astronauts behind Cuba and Hong Kong.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Swiss Astronauts of all time. This list of famous Swiss Astronauts is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Claude Nicollier (1944 - )
With an HPI of 52.58, Claude Nicollier is the most famous Swiss Astronaut. His biography has been translated into 26 different languages on wikipedia.
Claude Nicollier (born 2 September 1944 in Vevey, Switzerland) is the first astronaut from Switzerland. He has flown on four Space Shuttle missions. His first spaceflight (STS-46) was in 1992, and his final spaceflight (STS-103) was in 1999. He took part in two servicing missions to the Hubble Space Telescope (called STS-61 and STS-103). During his final spaceflight he participated in a spacewalk, becoming the first European Space Agency astronaut to do so during a Space Shuttle mission (previous ESA astronauts conducted spacewalks aboard Mir, see List of spacewalks and moonwalks 1965–1999). In 2000 he was assigned to the Astronaut Office Extravehicular Activity Branch, while maintaining a position as Lead ESA Astronaut in Houston. Nicollier retired from ESA in April 2007. He was appointed full professor of Spatial Technology at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne on 28 March 2007.He was an expert board member of Swiss Space Systems, until the company's dissolution.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as astronauts born between 1944 and 1944. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living astronauts include Claude Nicollier.
