Paolo Nespoli

Major Paolo Angelo Nespoli is an Italian astronaut and engineer of the European Space Agency (ESA). In 2007, he first traveled into space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery as a mission specialist of STS-120. In December 2010 he again traveled into space aboard the Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft as an Expedition 26/27 flight engineer. Nespoli's third spaceflight was on board Soyuz MS-05, which launched in July 2017 for Expedition 52/53. He was also the European Space Agency's oldest active astronaut prior to his retirement in 2019.

6 April 1957

Born on the same birth date (6 April 1957): Jaroslava Maxová • Maurizio Damilano

Born on the same birth day (6 April): April 6 • Arvid Horn • Barys Kit • Claire Morissette • Erich Mühsam • Hans Richter (artist) • Hilary Rhoda • Jean-Baptiste Rousseau • Leyre Romero Gormaz • Maurizio Damilano • Mike Worboys • Nicolas Chamfort • Philip Henry Gosse • Rob Epstein • Roy Goode • Roy Thinnes • Sergio Franchi • Tanya Byron • Walter Dandy

Born in the same month (April 1957): Aki Kaurismäki • Caroline Dean • Evelyn Ashford • Jan Hooks • Joseph Morelle • Neville Brody • Nobuyoshi Kuwano • Sebastian Adayantharath • Steve Gustafson