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Jean-François Clervoy
Jean-François André Clervoy (born 19 November 1958) is a French spationaut an a veteran of three NASA space shuttle missions.
Clervoy was born in Longeville-les-Metz, France and joined the French Air Force, where he trained as a test pilot. He was selected as an astronaut candidate by France in 1985 and trained extensively at the Russian Star City before being named to the European Space Agency's astronaut corps in 1992. He has flown on three space shuttle flights as a mission specialist, including STS-66 (1994), STS-84 (1997) and as flight engineer on STS-103 (1999), a Hubble Space Telescope repair mission.
He is now working on the Automated Transfer Vehicle program as support astronaut.
External link
- NASA Biography (http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/clervoy.html)