Portrait Hans Schlegel
ESA TV Exchanges
At the age of 56, German ESA astronaut Hans Schlegel will be beginning what could be seen as the most important journey of his life, when he accompanies Europes Columbus laboratory aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis to the ISS in December.
The script is online as a PDF file under http://television.esa.int/photos/EbS54452.pdf
A WMV preview clip is online under :
http://esatv-movies.e-vision.nl/videos/mphi/HANS_SCHLEGEL_DV_22-11-07_wmphigh.wmv

Hans Schlegel
10:00:40 At the age of 56, German ESA astronaut Hans Schlegel will be beginning what could be seen as the most important journey of his life, when he accompanies Europeís Columbus laboratory aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis to the ISS in December. But what was it that motivated him to become an astronaut when he started 19 years ago.
Images of Schlegel l with STS crew in training putting on harnessís- Tape 4/03:03
10:01:00 Quote Schlegel ñTape 1/-19:19
I didnít even dare to dream to be an astronaut, I read about US astronauts and Russian astronauts going into space and flying and I was reading about it and was interested in it but for a European that was beyond dreaming even.
20:05 It happened that 2 years later they were looking for European astronauts I applied and with luck and a little knowledge I got selected and even made a space flight""
10:01:32 This is Schlegelís second trip into space during his long career as an astronaut. In 1990 he started training in preparation for the German