Hans Schlegel

Hans Schlegel sits in a category I find genuinely awe-inspiring. A trained physicist from RWTH Aachen who flew two Space Shuttle missions, he belongs to the tiny club of humans who have actually looked back at Earth from orbit. What gets me is the dual nature required: the cold precision of physics and the raw nerve to risk your life in zero gravity. Being decorated by both Germany and Russia hints at a man whose ambition transcended borders. Most of us only gaze at the night sky; Schlegel went and stood beside the stars, and that scale of dream humbles me.

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Name (English)

Hans Schlegel

Name (Japanese)

ハンス・シュリーゲル

Reading

はんす・しゅりーげる

Born

August 3, 1951 (age 75)

Origin

Überlingen, Tübingen Government Region, Germany

Occupation

astronaut / physicist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Rabbit

High school

Lewis Central High School

University

RWTH Aachen University

Awards & achievements

• Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• Order of Friendship

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Schlegel
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8F%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B2%E3%83%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213605

Tags

• Tübingen Government Region
• astronaut
• physicist

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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