Vladimir Pletser, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Vladimir Pletser

Physicist-Engineer

Date of Birth: 28-Feb-1956

Place of Birth: Brussels metropolitan area, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium

Profession: astronaut, engineer, physicist, university teacher

Nationality: Belgium

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Vladimir Pletser (born 28 February 1956) is Visiting Professor – Scientific Adviser at the Technology and Engineering Centre for Space Utilization (CSU) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China, since April 2016.
He supports the preparation of scientific experiments in microgravity for the future Chinese Space Station and for aircraft parabolic flights.
He worked previously from 1985 till early 2016 as senior Physicist-Engineer at the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) of ESA. He is an expert in microgravity during aircraft parabolic flights for which he holds a world record.
He is known as ‘Mister Parabolic Flights’, ‘Mister Parabolas’, ‘Homo Parabolicus’ or ‘Mister Microgravity’.An astronaut candidate for Belgium since 1991, he spent two months in training in 1995 at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Selected by the Mars Society in 2001, he participated in three international campaigns of manned Mars mission simulations.