Franz Viehbock is an Austrian engineer who became the first and, to date, only Austrian citizen to fly in space, launching aboard a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft in October 1991 to the Mir space station as part of the Austromir program, a bilateral Austrian-Soviet spaceflight agreement. He spent about eight days in orbit conducting joint Austrian-Soviet scientific experiments before returning to Earth, one of the last Interkosmos-style guest cosmonaut flights of the Soviet era.
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1960-08-24
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is an Austrian electrical engineer
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In Group: Guest Cosmonauts of Partner Nations, Lead sentence
Franz Artur Viehböck (born 24 August 1960 in Vienna) is an Austrian electrical engineer and cosmonaut, who became the first Austrian to fly in space.
Associated With: Soviet space program, Article text: associated organization
Together with Clemens Lothaller, he was selected for the Soviet-Austrian space project Austromir 91.
Operated By: Soviet space program, Career: selection
he was selected for the Soviet-Austrian space project Austromir 91
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