Who is an astrophysicist for the European Space Agency, Dirk Frimout or Georgi Ivanov?
Dirk Frimout Dirk Dries David Damiaan, Viscount Frimout (born 21 March 1941 in Poperinge, Belgium) is an astrophysicist for the European Space Agency. He flew aboard NASA Space Shuttle mision STS-45 as a payload specialist , making him the first Belgian in space .
Gennadi Sarafanov Gennadi Vasiliyevich Sarafanov (Russian: Геннадий Васильевич Сарафанов ; b. January 1, 1942 in Sinenkiye, Saratov Oblast, Russia – d. September 29, 2005, Moscow) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 15 spaceflight in 1974. This mission was intended to dock with the space station Salyut 3, but failed to do so after the docking system malfunctioned.