European Space Agency astronaut, and the first Swedish citizen to travel into space. Fuglesang worked as a physicist at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), near Geneva, Switzerland, before being selected as an ESA astronaut in 1992. He was assigned to the Russian mission control centre from September 1995 to February 1996 as a coordinator for ESA's EuroMir 95 mission, a 180-day mission in which an ESA astronaut joined the Russian space station Mir. He joined NASA's Johnson Space Center in 1996 to train as a mission specialist for space shuttle flights. His first scheduled flight in 2004 was postponed because of the fatal Columbia flight the previous year. In 2006 he was launched into space aboard the space shuttle Discovery (STS-116), a crew-rotation mission to the International Space Station (ISS), where he performed space walks totalling over 18 hours. In August 2009 Fuglesang flew once again to the ISS as a mission specialist. During that STS-128 mission, Fuglesang also became the first space-walker not from Russia or the USA to do more than three space walks. With the completion of two more EVAs, he has performed five space walks.