Tibor Kapu

Tibor Kapu, born in 1991 in Vásárosnamény, is a Hungarian mechanical engineer who became a research astronaut. He studied at the Krúdy Gyula Secondary Grammar School in Nyíregyháza and then completed his bachelor and master studies in mechanical engineering at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, following his father into the profession. He applied to the Hungarian HUNOR programme on the last day of the application period in 2022, was one of four final candidates chosen from more than 240 applicants in 2023, and in May 2024 was named the astronaut to fly. He flew as a mission specialist on Axiom Mission 4, which launched to the International Space Station on 25 June 2025 and returned to the Pacific coast of California on 15 July 2025. He is the third Hungarian to travel in space after Bertalan Farkas in 1980 and Charles Simonyi in 2007. The flight was organised by the Hungarian state with Axiom Space. Outside engineering he is a two-time junior world silver medallist in the logic game Tantrix.