Award and Honors
- Honorary Doctorate from Umeå University, Sweden, 1999
- Honorary Doctorate from the University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia, 2007
- NASA Space Flight Medal, 2007
- H.M. The Kings Medal (Stockholm, 2007).
- NASA Exceptional Service Medal, 2010
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