Jean Francois Clervoy
Jean-François AndrĂŠ Clervoy (born 19 November 1958) is a French engineer and a CNES and ESA astronaut. He is a veteran of three NASA Space Shuttle missions. Graduated from Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, in 1981, he became a member of the Corps of Armament. He graduated from Ăcole nationale supĂŠrieure de l\'aĂŠronautique et de l\'espace, Toulouse, in 1983; graduated as a Flight Test Engineer from Ăcole du personnel navigant d\'essais et de rĂŠception, Istres, in 1987. Clervoy was seconded from the DĂŠlĂŠgation GĂŠnĂŠrale pour L\' Armement (DGA) to CNES (French Space Agency) when he was selected in the second group of French astronauts in 1985 and started an intensive Russian language training. In 1991, he trained in Star City, Moscow, on the Soyuz and Mit systems. In 1992, he joined the astronaut corps of the European Space Agency (ESA) at the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne. He flew twice aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis and once aboard Discovery for a total of 675 hours in space.
Spaceflights:
No. Mission Position Time Duration
1 STS-66 MSP 03.11. - 14.11.1994 10d 22h 34m
2 STS-84 MSP 15.05. - 24.05.1997 9d 05h 20m
3 STS-103 MSP 20.12. - 28.12.1999 7d 23h 11m
Total 28d 03h 05m
