!!!Viehböck, Franz

Viehboeck, Franz, b. Vienna, Aug. 24, 1960, electrical engineer. 
Teaching and research assistant at the Vienna University of 
Technology. 1988 applied to take part in the space travel project 
undertaken together with the Soviet Union  Austromir. After a 2-year 
training course, together with the physician Clemens Lothaller, V. was 
the first Austrian in space. His space flight with the Soviet Russian 
cosmonauts A. A. Wolkow and T. Aubakirow took place from Oct. 2, 
1991, 7:00 am until Oct.10, 1991, 5:12 am. Later worked in the field 
of space technology in the USA and in Europe.

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Work: Austromir 91, 1991 (with C. Lothaller).

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Literaure: B. Josseck and C. Feichtinger, Oe. Kosmonaut auf der 
Raumstation MIR, 1996.


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