Michel Ange-Charles Tognini is a French test pilot, engineer, Brigadier General in the French Air Force, and a former CNES and ESA astronaut who served from 01.01.2005 to 01.11.2011 as Head of the European Astronaut Centre of the European Space Agency. Tognini has 4000 flight hours on 80 types of aircraft. He is fluent in English and Russian.