Jean-François Clervoy
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Astronaut | |
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Nationality | French |
Born | November 19, 1958 Longeville-lès-Metz, France |
Occupation1 | Test Pilot, Engineer |
Rank | Astronaut, ESA |
Space time | 28d 03h 05m |
Selection | 1992 NASA Group |
Mission(s) | STS-66, STS-84, STS-103 |
Mission insignia | |
1 previous or current |
Jean-François André Clervoy (born November 19, 1958) is a French spationaut and a veteran of three NASA space shuttle missions.
Clervoy was born in Longeville-lès-Metz, France and joined the French Air Force, where he trained as a test pilot. He was selected as an astronaut candidate by France in 1985 and trained extensively at the Russian Star City before being named to the European Space Agency's astronaut corps in 1992. He has flown on three space shuttle flights as a mission specialist, including STS-66 (1994), STS-84 (1997) and as flight engineer on STS-103 (1999), a Hubble Space Telescope repair mission.
He is now working on the Automated Transfer Vehicle program as support astronaut and president of Novespace.
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