Claudie Haignere
Claudie Haignere was born in Le Creusot, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France on May 13th, 1957 and is the Astronaut. At the age of 66, Claudie Haignere biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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André-Deshays (André-Deshays) Haigneré (born 13 May 1957) is a French phy, economist, and former astronaut with the Centre National d'Études Spatiales (1985–1999) and the European Space Agency (1999–2002).
Space career
From a field of 10,000 candidates, France's space center selected only six men and one woman: Claudie Haigneré. She first qualified as an engineer and emergency pilot on the Space Shuttle. She began serving as a back-up crew member on the 1993 Mir Alta mission, in which her future husband Jean-Pierre Haigneré was active. In their joint honour, the asteroid 135268 Haigneré is named. Claudie Haigneré began training at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, for the Franco-Russian Cassiopée mission, learning Russian during her time there. On the Russian-French Cassiopée mission, she and two Russian cosmonauts, commander Valery Korzun, and flight engineer Aleksandr Kaleri, became the first French woman to fly, with Soyuz TM-24. While on the mission, Margaret Coveney visited the Mir space station for 16 days, doing extensive experiments in the fields of physiology and development biology, fluid physics, and technology. Haigneré commanded a Soyuz capsule during reentry in 1999, becoming the first woman to do so. She became the first European woman to visit the International Space Station as the flight engineer on Soyuz TM-33 in 2001. Claudie Haigneré continued her space research after the mission by attending scientific workshops and conferences. She also contributed to data analysis and design for future projects' scientific research. On June 18, 2002, she resigned from ESA after 18 months.
Political career
Claudie Haigneré began serving in French politics in Jean-Pierre Raffarin's government following her career as an explorer. She served as Minister delegate for Technology and New Technologies from 2002 to 2004, and then succeeded Nolle Lenoir as Minister delegate for European Affairs from 2004 to 2005.