# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paolo-nespoli
# Generated: 2026-08-31T19:37:05.051Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/paolo-nespoli"
name: "Paolo Nespoli"
slug: "paolo-nespoli"
description: "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."
tagline: "Italian astronaut"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paolo_A._Nespoli_2016.jpg?width=1200"
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country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1957-04-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump