Franz Viehböck

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Franz Artur Viehböck is an Austrian electrical engineer and cosmonaut, who became the first Austrian to fly in space. He visited the Mir space station in 1991 aboard Soyuz TM-13, returning aboard Soyuz TM-12 after spending just over a week in space.

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Franz Artur Viehböck
engineer, astronaut, Research Cosmonaut, 

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  • Mir
    1986–2001 modular space station in low Earth orbit
  • Soyuz TM-12
    1991 Soviet crewed spaceflight to Mir
  • Soyuz TM-13
    Space mission of Sojuz program
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    TypeSubtypeDateDescriptionNotesSource
    classorbitMirAleksandr Laveykin, Aleksandr Panayotov Aleksandrov, Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov, Franz Viehböck, Helen Sharman, Ulf Merbold, Viktor Savinykh, Yury Romanenko, space station,Wikidata
    classorbitSoyuz TM-12Anatoly Artsebarsky, Franz Viehböck, Helen Sharman, Sergei Krikalev, Soyuz-TM, Toktar Aubakirov, human spaceflight,Wikidata
    classorbitSoyuz TM-13Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov, Franz Viehböck, Klaus-Dietrich Flade, Sergei Krikalev, Soyuz-TM, Toktar Aubakirov, human spaceflight,Wikidata
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