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Patrick Pierre Roger Baudry (born March 6, 1946, in Cameroon) is a retired lieutenant colonel in the French Air Force and a former CNES astronaut.In 1985, he became the second French citizen in space, after Jean-Loup Chrétien, when he flew aboard NASA's Space Shuttle mission STS-51-G.
The following is a list of French astronauts, also referred to as spationauts, who have traveled into space, sorted by date of first flight. As of 2024, ten French nationals have been in space. The first French national in space was Jean-Loup Chrétien in 1982.
Jean-François André Clervoy (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ fʁɑ̃swa ɑ̃dʁe klɛʁvwa]; born 19 November 1958) is a French engineer and a CNES and ESA astronaut. He is a veteran of three NASA Space Shuttle missions.
Thomas Gautier Pesquet (French pronunciation: [tɔmɑ ɡotje pɛskɛ]; born 27 February 1978) is a French aerospace engineer, pilot, European Space Agency astronaut, actor, [1] musician, and writer. Pesquet was selected by ESA as a candidate in May 2009, [ 2 ] and he successfully completed his basic training in November 2010. [ 3 ]
Sophie Adenot (born 5 July 1982) is a French engineer, helicopter pilot, and astronaut. A French Air and Space Force helicopter pilot with the rank of lieutenant colonel, Adenot became France's first female helicopter test pilot in 2018. She was chosen for the European Astronaut Corps as part of the 2022 group.
This is an alphabetical list of astronauts, people selected to train for a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft.. For a list of everyone who has flown in space, see List of space travelers by name.
Claudie (André-Deshays) Haigneré (French pronunciation: [klodi ɛɲʁe]; born 13 May 1957) is a French doctor, politician and former astronat. She was the first female astronaut of the French space agency CNES and the European Space Agency (ESA) to go to space. [1]
Michel Ange-Charles Tognini (born 30 September 1949 in Vincennes, France) is a French test pilot, engineer, brigadier general in the French Air Force, and a former CNES and ESA astronaut who served from 1 January 2005 to 1 November 2011 as head of the European Astronaut Centre of the European Space Agency. A veteran of two space flights ...