Rimadesio 60 Stories, Challenges, Talents. Maurizio Cheli
Adventure, space discovery and challenges for the future illustrated by the famous Italian astronaut Maurizio Cheli, during the fourth and final meeting with the protagonists of Rimadesio 60. A special event aimed at discovering the background of an extraordinary reality, full of charm and suggestion.
Michele Lupi, journalist; Maurizio Cheli, astronaut
Maurizio Cheli, astronaut
Michele Lupi, journalist; Maurizio Cheli, astronaut
Miyuki Yajima, journalist
Davide Brambilla, architect
Marco Romanelli, architetect and designer; Mia Pizzi, Abitare magazine chief editor design
Roberta Guainieri, councillor for tourism sport and leisure of the city of Milan
Davide Malberti, Rimadesio ceo; Maurizio Cheli, astronaut; Michele Lupi, journalist
Davide Malberti, Rimadesio ceo; Maurizio Cheli, astronaut
Michele Lupi, journalist; Maurizio Cheli, astronaut
Michele Lupi, journalist; Maurizio Cheli, astronaut
Nicoletta Ferrari, fashion editor at Large / How to Spend It / Il Sole 24 Ore
Biography
He was born in Zocca, near Modena, in 1959. He was astronaut for the European Space Agency, now chief test manager in Alenia Aeronautica-Finmeccanica. In 1992 he joins ESA and the year after obtaines the qualification at the Johnson Space Center in Houston to become an astronaut. In 1996 his first mission with the Space Shuttle Columbia, as mission 2 specialist, in other words flight engineer (first Italian to get this position).
In 2004 he graduates in Political Sciences at the University of Turin and gets a Master in Business Administration at the Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Paris. In 2009 he is member of the organizing committee of the World Air Games. Cheli has an experience of 380 hours in the space and 4500 hours of flight activities on more than 50 different types of aircrafts.
