Leopold Eyharts
Léopold Eyharts is a Brigadier General in the French Air Force and an ESA astronaut. In 1990, Léopold Eyharts was selected as an astronaut candidate by CNES (Centre National d’Études Spatiales) and assigned to support the Hermes spaceplane program managed by the Hermes Crew office in Toulouse. He became one of the test pilots in charge of the CNES parabolic flights program, an experimental aircraft (Caravelle) managed by Bretigny Flight Test Center to provide a microgravity laboratory to the scientific community. In 1992, Eyharts participated in the second European Space Agency astronaut selection. At the end of the same year, he took part in an ESA evaluation of the Russian “Buran” Space Shuttle training in Moscow, where he flew in the Tupolev 154 Buran in-flight simulator.
Spaceflights
No. Mission Position Time Duration
1 Soyuz TM-27 / Soyuz TM-26 Research Cosmonaut 29.01. - 19.02.1998 20d 16h 37m
2 STS-122 / ISS-16 / STS-123 Flight Engineer 07.02. - 27.03.2008 48d 04h 54m
Total 68d 21h 31m
