Soyuz TM-22 flight patch, 1995

Thomas Reiter (DE) flew on Soyuz TM-22 to the Mir space station for ESA's Euromir 95 mission, between September 1995 and February 1996. During his 179 days aboard Mir, he carried out two spacewalks and became the first ESA (and German) astronaut to perform a spacewalk. He served as Flight Engineer alongside Russian cosmonauts Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Avdeyev.