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Thomas Reiter

1958 - Today

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Thomas Arthur Reiter (born 23 May 1958 in Frankfurt, West Germany) is a retired European astronaut and is a Brigadier General in the German Air Force currently working as ESA Interagency Coordinator and Advisor to the Director General at the European Space Agency (ESA). He was one of the top 25 astronauts in terms of total time in space. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Reiter has received more than 102,673 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Thomas Reiter is the 153rd most popular astronaut (up from 226th in 2019), the 4,159th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,611th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular German Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Thomas Reiter ranks 153 out of 556. Before him are Valeri Tokarev, Pavel Vinogradov, Edward Gibson, Tatyana Kuznetsova, Peggy Whitson, and Vladimir Kovalyonok. After him are William Shepherd, Chiaki Mukai, Franklin Chang Díaz, Ronald McNair, Eileen Collins, and Anatoly Artsebarsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Thomas Reiter ranks 184. Before him are Mark Moses, Hiromi Kawakami, Thongchai McIntyre, Margaret Colin, Wafa Sultan, and Yan Lianke. After him are Guillermo Arriaga, Yu Rongguang, Edgardo Bauza, Tsutomu Sonobe, Algirdas Butkevičius, and Bernard Genghini.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Thomas Reiter ranks 4,159 out of 7,253. Before him are Otto Jahn (1813), Gerhard Marcks (1889), Carl Sternheim (1878), Johannes Brenz (1499), Ludwig Bieberbach (1886), and Anton Friedrich Büsching (1724). After him are Princess Margarita of Baden (1932), Klaus Wunder (1950), Johann Adolf I, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels (1649), Ruth Leuwerik (1924), Franz Xaver Gabelsberger (1789), and Hans Carl Friedrich von Mangoldt (1854).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Germany

Among astronauts born in Germany, Thomas Reiter ranks 3. Before him are Sigmund Jähn (1937), and Ulf Merbold (1941). After him are Hans Schlegel (1951), Ernst Messerschmid (1945), Jean-Jacques Favier (1949), Jasmin Moghbeli (1983), Klaus-Dietrich Flade (1952), Reinhold Ewald (1956), Ulrich Walter (1954), Gerhard Thiele (1953), and Alexander Gerst (1976).

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