Philippe Perrin
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Philippe Perrin (Colonel, French Air Force) (born January 6, 1963) is a French test pilot and former CNES and European Space Agency astronaut.
Military and flight career
Perrin served in the French Navy, where he was trained in ship piloting and navigation, and spent six months at sea in the Indian Ocean before graduating from the École polytechnique. Following École polytechnique, he joined the French Air Force in 1985 and was assigned to the 33rd Reconnaissance Wing at Strasbourg Air Force Base (1987–1991). He travelled to Mirage F1CR and made detachments in Africa and Saudi Arabia.
Perrin has flown 26 combat missions and has flown over 2,500 flying hours in more than 30 categories (from jet fighters to Airbus).
After graduating from EPNER, the French Test Pilot School, he worked on a number of experiment centers before being sent to the Bretigny Test Center. He was temporarily transferred from the French Space Agency (CNES) to Star City, Russia, where he spent two months. He was posted as Senior Operations Officer on Dijon Air Force Base in 1993, according to Operation Southern Watch. In 1995, he returned to the Bretigny Test Center as Chief Pilot Deputy in charge of the Mirage 2000-5's construction.
CNES and ESA career
CNES revealed his selection as an astronaut in July 1996 and assigned him to NASA's Astronaut Candidate Training in Houston, Texas.
Perrin first reported to the Johnson Space Center in August 1996. He qualified for flight assignments as a mission specialist after two years of preparation and analysis. Perrin was first assigned to technical roles in the Astronaut Office Spacecraft Systems/Operations Branch.
He served as a mission specialist on the STS-111 mission in 2002 and logged over 332 hours in space, including 19 hours and 31 minutes in three spacewalks with Franklin Chang-Diaz.
After his flight, Perrin returned to France to work as a support astronaut on the Automated Transfer Vehicle project. He was moved from CNES to the European Space Agency's astronaut corps in December 2002.
In 2004, he did not fly in space with ESA and left the European Astronaut Corps. He is currently working as a test pilot for Airbus.
Endeavour, a British singer, was born in a small town in June 2002. The STS-111 mission carried a new ISS resident crew and a Canadian-built mobile base for the orbiting outpost's robotic arm. The crew also did a late-notice repair of the station's robot arm by replacing one of the arm's joints. It was the second mission dedicated to providing scientific equipment to the space station. Perrin and Franklin Chang-Diaz performed three EVAs (space walks). The Expedition 4 crew was also returned home from their 6+12-month stay aboard the ship by STS-111. The mission lasted 13 days, 20 hours, and 35 minutes. A landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California, was necessitated due to unacceptable weather in Florida.
Awards and honors
- Awarded his pilot’s wings "first of his class" in 1996
- French Air Force Award for Flight Safety (2) in 1989
- French Overseas Medal (Gulf War, 1991)
- French National Defense Medal (2)
- Officier, Légion d'Honneur