Jean-Loup Chrétien Astronaut

Jean-Loup Jacques Marie Chrétien (born August 20, 1938) is a French retired Général de Brigade (brigadier general) in the Armée de l'Air (French air force), and a former CNES spationaut. He flew on two Franco-Soviet space missions and a NASA Space Shuttle mission. Chrétien was the first Frenchman and the first western European in space.

Personal facts

Jean-Loup Chrétien
Birth dateAugust 20, 1938
Birth place
La Rochelle , France
Nationality
France

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Astronaut

missions
STS-86
Soyuz T-6
Soyuz TM-6
Soyuz TM-7
Mir EO-4
statusRetired
Time in space43 days 11 hours 19 minutes

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External resources

  1. http://www.cnes.fr/html/_111_887_644_.php
  2. http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/chretien.html
  3. http://www.sciencepresse.qc.ca/clafleur/ChretienJL.html
  4. http://www.space-explorers.org/bios/chretien.html
  5. http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/international/english/chretien_jean-loup.htm
  6. http://www.thespaceagency.org/bios/chretien.html
  7. http://www.tietronix.com