Klaus Bernhard von Storch Krüger (born February 20, 1962) is a

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and astronaut trainee. Von Storch was born in Osorno, in southern Chile. In 1992, he was selected by the Chilean Space Agency for the preparation for the flight on the Space Shuttle. In 2001, he was considered as candidate for that flight aboard a Russian spacecraft during a taxi flight to the ISS in 2003 but in September 2002 the medical board at the IMBP was not passed. , Von Storch aspires to fly into space in the future. He is also brother-in-law to

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politician

Beatrix von Storch Beatrix von Storch (; 27 May 1971) is a German politician and lawyer, who has been the Deputy Parliamentary Leader of the Alternative for Germany since July 2015 and a Member of the Bundestag since September 2017. She previously was a Member of ...

, who is married with his brother

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Spacefacts biography of Klaus von Storch
1962 births Living people Chilean Air Force officers Chilean military aviators Astronaut candidates Chilean people of German descent People from Osorno, Chile Chilean engineers 20th-century Chilean military personnel 21st-century Chilean military personnel {{Chile-engineer-stub