Claudie Haigneré

Claudie Haigneré
Country:	France
Organization:	CNES / ESA
selected on	September 9, 1985
Calls:	2 space flights
Start of the first space flight:	17th August 1996
Landing of the last space flight:	October 31, 2001
Time in space:	25d 14h 22min
retired on	June 2002
Space flights
Soyuz TM-24 / Soyuz TM-23 (1996) Mir-Cassiopée Soyuz TM-33 / Soyuz TM-32 (2001) ISS-Andromède

Claudie Haigneré (born May 13, 1957 in Le Creusot , Burgundy , France ; formerly Claudie André-Deshays ) is a French astronaut and politician.

Her birth name is André. In her first marriage she was called André-Deshays. In her second marriage, she is married to the French spaceman Jean-Pierre Haigneré and has a daughter.

biography

The doctor

Claudie André-Deshays received her PhD in Medicine from the University of Dijon in 1981 . She had also studied biology and sports medicine. In 1982 she added studies in aerospace medicine, and in 1984 also in rheumatism .

She worked at the rheumatism clinic of the Hôpital Cochin in Paris , where she worked in the field of rehabilitation.

The spaceman

Preparations

When the French space agency CNES announced that it was training a second group of space travelers, André-Deshays applied. Of the seven candidates selected in September 1985, she was the only woman.

At CNES, she continued her scientific work in the laboratory for neurosensual physiology. After an in-depth study of biomechanics and movement physiology, she worked on the preparation and supervision of scientific experiments in weightlessness.

From 1989 to 1992 she was the scientific director for the experiments on board the Franco-Soviet Mir-Antares mission , which took place in July 1992 with the participation of the French spaceman Michel Tognini .

In 1991 she was one of the French candidates to move from CNES to the European Astronaut Corps, but Jean-François Clervoy was selected .

Mir-Altair

In October 1992 she was assigned to replace the French spaceman Jean-Pierre Haigneré, who was to fly the Soviet-French space mission Mir-Altair . The eight-month training for the two spacemen took place in Svyosdny Gorodok , the so-called “Star City”.

This flight took place in July 1993 with Soyuz TM-17 and Soyuz TM-16 . Claudie Haigneré monitored the biological experiments from the Russian ground station.

Mir-Cassiopée

From September 1993 she was in charge of the scientific experiments for the next Euromir 94 and Mir-Cassiopée missions . Euromir 94 took place in October 1994 with the participation of the German astronaut Ulf Merbold .

In December 1994 she was nominated as a crew for the Franco-Russian space mission Mir-Cassiopée. From January 1995 she trained for this together with her substitute Léopold Eyharts in the Russian cosmonaut training center Swjosdny Gorodok , the so-called "Star City".

Ten days before take-off, Commander Gennady Manakov was diagnosed with a slight heart problem that made him unable to fly. Since the Russian aerospace industry relies on well-rehearsed teams, not only Manakov was replaced, but also the flight engineer Pavel Winogradov . Valeri Korsun and Alexander Kaleri followed suit as the new long-term crew of Mir . As a short-term crew, André-Deshays was not affected by this exchange.

With the start, Claudie André-Deshays became the seventh French spaceman. At the same time, she was the first French woman in space.

The Soyuz TM-24 spaceship brought André-Deshays, Korsun and Kaleri to the Mir space station, which at that time was manned by the Russians Yuri Onufrijenko and Yuri Ussachev , as well as the American Shannon Lucid . During her two-week stay, André-Deshays performed a variety of biological and technical experiments before returning to Earth with Onufrijenko and Ussachev in Soyuz TM-23 .

In 1997 she worked in Moscow as the French representative for the Franco-Russian company Starsem.

Me-Perseus

In May 1998 she was selected to replace the next Franco-Russian space mission, Mir-Perseus . First choice was again Jean-Pierre Haigneré. To do this, the two had to move back to the star city.

From March 8, 1999, Claudie André-Deshays underwent training as a Soyuz commander for the return flight from a space station at the Juri Gagarin cosmonaut training center. The final exam took place on July 7, 1999. Claudie André-Deshays received the maximum possible score of 5 in the theoretical test and 4.7 in the practical test in the simulator, in which sudden emergency situations (escape of air in the spaceship, failure of the drive) were played through.

Claudie André-Deshays was the first woman and the first foreign spaceman with this qualification.

Since in the Mission Mir-Perseus spacewalk of French astronaut was planned, it was also trained specifically for this purpose.

ISS-Andromède

In November 1999 Claudie André-Deshays was integrated into the European astronaut corps of ESA in Cologne , to which Jean-Pierre Haigneré already belonged.

In January 2001 she moved back to the star city Svyosdny Gorodok, this time as the main crew for the research flight ISS-Andromède . Your substitute was the Italian Roberto Vittori . The training also included training at CNES in Toulouse for the French research program that she was responsible for, and at the Johnson Space Center for the American part of the International Space Station . There she met the ISS expedition 2 , which had just returned .

Claudie Haigneré completed her second space flight from October 21st to 31st, 2001. Together with Viktor Afanassjew and Konstantin Kosejew she flew with Soyuz TM-33 to the International Space Station ISS , where they met ISS Expedition 3 . After a week, the Soyuz TM-32 landed .

The politician and manager

In June 2002 she was appointed Minister for Research and New Technologies in the French government under Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin . From March 30, 2004, Claudie Haigneré was French European Minister, also under Raffarin, but lost this office again on May 31, 2005 with his resignation.

Since November 2005 she has been in management at ESA ("Adviser to the Director General; European space policy, participates in the elaboration of ESA's strategic direction and adaptation to changes in the geopolitical environment both at international and European level").

In March 2009 she was entrusted by Valérie Pécresse , French Minister for Higher Education and Research, and Christine Albanel , French Minister for Culture and Communication, with the task of merging the two Paris museums, Cité des sciences et de l'industrie and Palais de la découverte under a joint sponsorship.

Honors

In September 2001, an asteroid was discovered in Le Creusot, the hometown of Claudie Haigneré, which was named after her and her husband (135268) Haigneré .

Private

Between her two space flights, Claudie André-Deshays married her astronaut colleague Jean-Pierre Haigneré. Since February 1998 the two had a daughter together.

Movie

• My life - Claudie Haigneré. Documentation, Germany, 2007, 43 min., Directors: Ilona Kalmbach, Sabine Jainski, production: arte , ZDF , competent filmproduktion, first broadcast: April 20, 2008.

See also

• List of spacemen

Web links and sources

Commons : Claudie Haigneré  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• spacefacts.de: Short biography
• space.kursknet.ru: Short biography ( Memento from September 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (English / Russian)
• Biography of Claudie André-Deshays (French)
• www.spiegel.de: suicide-attempt-ex-astronaut-haignere-wanted-to-kill-herself

Individual evidence

1. ^ Claudie Haigneré chargé d'une mission sur la préfiguration du regroupement du Palais de la découverte et de la Cité des sciences et de l'industrie. (No longer available online.) Ministère de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche, March 26, 2009, formerly in the original ; Retrieved June 8, 2009 (French).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.