Marcos C. Pontes
Brazil
Brazil
NASA
NASA
Brazil
Brazil
NASA
NASA
452
Marcos C. Pontes
b. Mar 11, 1963
LIFE FORM
Gender
Rank
Brazilian Air Force Lieutenant Colonel
MISSIONS
1
TIME IN SPACE
09D:21H:17M
SPACEWALKS
-
SPACEWALK TIME
-
Marcos C. Pontes
Brazil
Brazil
NASA
NASA
Brazil
Brazil
NASA
NASA
452
Marcos C. Pontes
b. Mar 11, 1963
LIFE FORM
Gender
Rank
Brazilian Air Force Lieutenant Colonel
MISSIONS
1
TIME IN SPACE
09D:21H:17M
SPACEWALKS
-
SPACEWALK TIME
-
Badges
ISS Visitor
ISS Visitor
This astronaut visited the International Space Station.
Crossed Kármán Line
Crossed Kármán Line
This astronaut crossed the Kármán Line (100 km), the internationally accepted boundary of space.
First Man from Brazil
First Man from Brazil
This astronaut is the first man from Brazil to go to space.
WIKIPEDIA EXCERPT
Marcos Cesar Pontes is a Brazilian Air Force pilot, engineer, AEB astronaut and author. He became the first South American and the first Lusophone to go into space when he docked onto the International Space Station aboard Soyuz TMA-8 on March 30, 2006. He is the only Brazilian to have completed the NASA astronaut training program, although he switched to training in Russia after NASA's Space Shuttle program encountered problems. After Jair Bolsonaro's victory as President of Brazil in 2018, Pontes was officially nominated to be Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, a post which he accepted days later.