Notable ETPS Graduates
This table contains details about ETPS graduates who have made significant contributions to aviation and/or space exploration.
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| Name | Course | Year | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baudry, Patrick | No. 37 FW | 1978 | Flew aboard NASA's Space Shuttle 1985 mission STS-51-G. |
| de Winne, Frank | No. 51 FW | 1992 | The first European Space Agency astronaut to command a space mission when he served as commander of the 2009 International Space Station Expedition 21, his second ISS mission. |
| Cheli, Maurizio | No. 47 FW | 1988 | European Space Agency astronaut aboard Space Shuttle mission STS-75 (with Claude Nicollier, another ETPS graduate) in 1995. |
| Duke, Neville | No. 4/5 | 1946/7 | World War II Fighter ace, later test pilot at Hawker Aircraft. On 7 September 1953, Duke set a new world air speed record of 727.63 mph (1,171.01 km/h), flying Hunter WB188. |
| Giddings, Michael | No. 4/5 | 1946/7 | Air Marshal Sir Kenneth Charles Michael Giddings KCB, OBE, DFC, AFC & Bar |
| Goodhart, Nicholas | No. 4 | 1946 | Rear Admiral H.C.Nicholas 'Nick' Goodhart, CB, Legion of Merit, FRAeS, RN rtd, invented the mirror-sight deck landing system for aircraft carriers; record-breaking glider pilot; holder of the Royal Aero Club's Silver medal and the FAI's Paul Tissandier Diploma for "those who have served the cause of Aviation in general and Sporting Aviation in particular, by their work, initiative, devotion or in other ways" |
| Haigneré, Jean-Pierre | No. 40 FW | 1981 | French Air Force pilot, later CNES and ESA cosmonaut on the 1993 Franco-Russian Altaïr and 1999 Soyuz TM-29 missions to the Mir space station |
| Hammond, L. Blaine Jr. | No. 40 FW | 1981 | USAF pilot and NASA astonaut; flew on Space Shuttle missions STS-39 and STS-64 |
| McCulley, Michael J. | - | - | Captain, U.S.Navy and NASA astronaut who was pilot of the 1989 Space Shuttle mission STS-34 |
| Muehlberg, John R. | No. 2 | 1944/45 | Lt.-Col. USAF, first Commandant of the US Air Force Test Pilot School |
| Nicholson, Peter | No. 32 FW | 1973 | Air Vice-Marshal Peter Nicholson, appointed Air Commander Australia on 9 April 1996; admitted as an Officer of the Order of Australia in the 1999 Australia Day Honours |
| Nicollier, Claude | No. 47 FW | 1988 | First astronaut from Switzerland; has flown on four Space Shuttle missions: STS-46, STS-61, STS-75 (with Maurizio Cheli, another ETPS graduate) and STS-103; full professor of Spatial Technology at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne from 2007 |
| Peake, Timothy | No. 43 RW | 2005 | Former British Army Air Corps helicopter pilot, he is the first British citizen to be selected as an astronaut by ESA. |
| Pogue, Bill | No. 22 FW | 1963 | Pilot of Skylab 4 (1973–74). |
| Tognini, Michel | No. 41 FW | 1982 | French and ESA astronaut who served on the 1992 Soyuz TM-15 and 1999 Space Shuttle Columbia STS-93 missions. |
| Twiss, Peter | No. 3 | 1945 | On 10 March 1956 in the Fairey Delta 2, a supersonic delta-winged research plane, Twiss raised the world air speed record from 822.1 mph (1,323 km/h) to 1,132 mph (1811 km/h). The FD2 was the first aircraft to exceed 1,000 mph in level flight. |
| Worden, Al | No. 23 FW | 1964 | Command module pilot for the 1971 Apollo 15 moon mission. |
| Żurakowski, Janusz | No. 2 | 1944/45 | Highly decorated Polish and RAF WWII Spitfire pilot, later test pilot with Glosters (Meteor, Javelin) and Avro Canada (Arrow). |
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