What is Michel Tognini?
[[File:Michel Tognini.jpg|thumb|right|Michel Tognini]] '''Michel Ange-Charles Tognini''' (born September 30, 1949, in [[Vincennes]], France) is a French test pilot, astronaut, educator, writer and administrator. Tognini is Head of the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) of the [[European Space Agency]] (ESA) in Cologne, Germany.<ref>Usa, Ibp. (2007). [https://books.google.com/books?id=v0R37wUUtOAC&pg=PA35 ''European Space Agency (ESA) Handbook,'' p. 35]{{Dead link|date=October 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}.</ref> Tognini graduates ''[[École de l'Air]]''.<ref>{{in lang|fr}}[http://www.ecole-air.fr/mediatheque/bibliotheque/contenus/airSalon41.pdf Air Salon] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306044219/http://www.ecole-air.fr/mediatheque/bibliotheque/contenus/airSalon41.pdf |date=2016-03-06 }}</ref> ==Awards and honors== * [[Medal of Aeronautics]]<ref>Association of Space Explorers, [http://www.space-explorers.org/bios/tognini.html Michel Tognini] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111031114854/http://www.space-explorers.org/bios/tognini.html |date=2011-10-31 }}; retrieved 2012-7-10.</ref> * Chevalier de Ordre National du Mérite * Commander dans l'Ordre de la Légion d'Honneur * Soviet Order of Friendship between the People * Russian Order of Friendship between the People ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{Commons category-inline|Michel Tognini}} *[http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/tognini.html NASA biography of Tognini] *[http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/international/english/tognini_michel.htm Spacefacts biography of Tognini] {{DEFAULTSORT:Tognini, Michel}} [[Category:1949 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Astronauts]] [[Category:French aviators]] [[Category:Vincennes]] [[Category:People from Val-de-Marne]]