Maurizio Cheli
- Status: Retired
- In Space: No
- Date of Birth: 05/04/1959
- First Flight: 02/22/1996
- Last Flight: 02/22/1996
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Maurizio Cheli, a Italian astronaut affiliated with the government agency European Space Agency, embarked on 1 space flights and engaging in 0 spacewalks during his/her career as an astronaut.
Maurizio Cheli (born 4 May 1959) is an Italian air force officer, a European Space Agency astronaut and a veteran of one NASA space shuttle mission.
He trained with the United States Air Force and was selected as an astronaut candidate by the European Space Agency in 1992. He holds the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Italian Air Force. He flew aboard STS-75 in 1996 as a mission specialist.
