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Walter Villadei
Italian Air Force colonel who served as pilot on Axiom-3.
432h
Hours in Space
1
Missions
0
EVAs
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EVA Time
Biography
Italian Air Force colonel who served as pilot on Axiom-3. Conducted 13 Italian experiments during 18 days aboard the ISS.
Before NASAColonel in the Italian Air Force and aerospace engineer who served on the C-130J and Eurofighter Typhoon programs and earned full Soyuz cosmonaut wings at Star City in 2012.
Notable Missions
Axiom Mission 3
Beyond the Mission
Causes They Champion
Italian commercial spaceflight strategyEuropean astronaut training
Languages
ItalianEnglishRussian
Awards & Honors
- Italian Air Force Cosmonaut Wings
Fun fact
Before his Ax-3 flight he flew on Virgin Galactic's Galactic 01 sub-orbital mission in 2023 — making him one of the few astronauts to reach space on both a suborbital spaceplane and an orbital Crew Dragon within a single year.
Item flown to space
An Italian flag and the flag of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
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