Vladimir Pletser

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Full Name	Vladimir Pletser
Occupation	Engineer
Date Of Birth	Feb 28, 1956(1956-02-28)
Age	68
Birthplace	Brussels
Country	Belgium
Horoscope	Aquarius

Vladimir Pletser Biography

Vladimir Pletser is one of the most popular and richest Engineer who was born on February 28, 1956 in Brussels, Belgium. Vladimir Pletser (born 28 February 1956) is a visiting professor – Scientific Advisor in the Technology and Engineering Centre for Space Utilization (CSU) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China, since April 2016. He assists in the design of microgravity-based scientific experiments for the upcoming Chinese Space Station and for aircraft parabolic flights. He was previously employed from 1985 until in the early part of 2016 as a senior engineer and physicist for the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) of ESA.

From 1985 onwards, the scientist has been following the development of technical aspects of scientific payloads. He was also directly involved in over 30 microgravity experiments conducted on space missions as Experiment Coordinator, and responsible for ground operations for the experiments:

Pletser was selected in May 1991 by Belgium among 550 candidates as laboratory specialist astronaut candidate, with four other candidates, including Marianne Merchez and Frank De Winne, but he was not retained at the end of the ESA selection in May 1992. In May 1992, he applied to NASA as Payload Specialist astronaut candidate for the 2nd International Microgravity Laboratory (IML-2) Spacelab – STS-65 mission. Although recommended by members of the IML-2 Mission Investigator Working Group, his application was not considered by NASA. In January 1995, he was officially presented by Belgium as a Payload Specialist astronaut candidate for NASA’s Life and Microgravity Spacelab (LMS) – STS-78 mission. Four other candidates were presented respectively by the French Space Agency (CNES), the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and ESA. After recommendation of the LMS Mission Investigator Working Group, the five candidates reported in March 1995 to NASA’s Johnson Space Center for medical examinations and information sessions on medical experiments. Pletser passed successfully the medical selection and was unofficially informed that one of the places as alternate Payload Specialist astronaut would be proposed to him, having received the most recommendations of the LMS Mission Investigator Working Group. He started with the three other selected candidates two months of training at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, at the Payload Crew Training Complex of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, at ESTEC and in several American university laboratories. However, NASA announced in May 1995 the selection of Dr. Jean-Jacques Favier (CNES) and Dr. Robert Thirsk (CSA) as Payload Specialist astronauts, and Dr Luca Urbani (ASI) and Mr. Pedro Duque (ESA) as alternate Payload Specialist astronauts.

An astronaut candidate for Belgium since 1991, he spent two months in training in 1995 at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Selected by the Mars Society in 2001, he participated in three international campaigns of manned Mars mission simulations.

From 1985 to in the early part of the year Pletser is the person responsible for ESA aircraft parabolic flight missions for microgravity experiments of short duration.

Vladimir Pletser Net Worth

Vladimir Pletser is one of the richest Engineer from Belgium. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Vladimir Pletser 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In Latin-Mathematics, graduated from the Institut Saint-Boniface of Brussels in 1973. Graduated as a Special Scientific from the College Saint-Michel of Brussels in 1974. Graduated in 1974 from Universite Catholique of Louvain (UCL) in Louvain-la-Neuve Belgium as a mechanical engineer for civil engineering and systems, with specialization in dynamic systems and dynamics (1979) Master in physics and space geodesy (1980) as well as a Ph.D. on physics, Astrophysics and astronomy (1990).

Pletser was a Research Engineer from the year 1980 until 1981 in the Department of External Geophysics of the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium in the field of the Ionospheric Doppler effect. Then from 1981 until 1982 from 1981 to 1982, at the Faculty of Agronomy of the UCL for statistical applied, mathematical modeling and simulation using computers. He was appointed in 1982 was promoted to an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Sciences of the UCL and then a detachment at the university of Kinshasa, Congo (ex-Zaire) in which he taught up to the year 1985, in Physics, Applied Mathematics, Astronomy and Geophysics.

In 1985, Pletser joined the Microgravity Project and Platform Division in the Human Spaceflight and Operations Directorate at ESA’s ESTEC in Noordwijk, Netherlands.

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In 2002, he initiated a new project in Belgium, to have secondary school students flying in weightlessness during ESA Student campaigns. Collaborating with the Region of Brussels-Capital and the Euro Space Society, he organized a contest for secondary schools in Brussels inviting students to propose experiments to be realized in microgravity. Five teams of Brussels secondary schools took part in the third ESA Student campaign in July 2003 aboard the Airbus A300 ZERO-G operating for the first time out of France and landing in Brussels. This pedagogical project encountered such a large success that it was repeated in 2006 with the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office and the Euro Space Society for secondary school students of whole Belgium. In July 2006, six teams of Belgian secondary schools participated in the ninth ESA Student campaign with the Airbus A300 landing again in Brussels.

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Vladimir Ranked on the list of most popular Engineer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Belgium. Vladimir Pletser celebrates birthday on February 28 of every year.

Pletser is the only person in the world having flown parabolas on ten different aircraft: NASA’s KC-135/930, KC-135/931, and DC-9/30; the CNES-ESA’s Airbus A300 ZERO-G; the CNES’s Caravelle; the Russian Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center Ilyushin Il-76MDK; the Canadian Space Agency’s Falcon 20; the Dutch NLR Cessna Citation II; a Fouga Magister of the Belgian Air Force and the Austrian Short Skyvan. He holds the official Guinness World Record for the most aircraft flown in parabolic flight (nine), awarded in 2010 before his participation in the flights aboard the Falcon 20 in 2011, the Airbus A310 since 2015 and the Grob G103a Twin II glider in 2016.