FACTBOX: Europeans, Americans team up for space flight

(Reuters) - The seven-member crew of the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis includes a pair of European Space Agency astronauts who are returning to space after debut missions in the 1990s.

Atlantis lifted off on Thursday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a mission to deliver Europe's first permanent space laboratory to the International Space Station. Here's a look at the crew:

* Commander Stephen Frick, 43, a U.S. Navy pilot from Gibsonia, Pennsylvania, who is flying for the second time.

* Pilot Alan Poindexter, 46, a Navy pilot from Rockville, Maryland, on his first flight.

* Flight engineer and lead spacewalker Rex Walheim, 45, an Air Force colonel from San Carlos, California, on his second flight.

* Stanley Love, 42, a doctor from Eugene, Oregon, on his first flight.

* Leland Melvin, 43, a former National Football League player from Lynchburg, Virginia, on his first flight.

* Hans Schlegel, 56, a physicist with the European Space Agency from Aachen, Germany, on his second flight.

* Leopold Eyharts, 50, a general in the French air force from Biarritz, France, on his second flight. Eyharts is replacing NASA astronaut Dan Tani as a member of the International Space Station Expedition 16 crew.

(Reporting by Irene Klotz, editing by Jim Loney and Xavier Briand)