Tags: Astronaut.
Maurizio Cheli (born 4 May 1959) is an Italian air force officer a European Space Agency astronaut and a veteran of one NASA space shuttle mission.A native of Modena Cheli attended the Italian Air Force Academy and trained as a test pilot at the Empire Test Pilots’ School England being awarded the McKenna Trophy as the best student on his course. He studied geophysics at the University of Rome La Sapienza and earned a master’s degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Houston.
