Jean-Loup Chrétien

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Jean-Loup Jacques Marie Chrétien (born 20 August 1938) is a French retired Général de Brigade (brigadier general) in the Armée de l'Air (French air force), and a former CNES spationaut. He flew on two Franco-Soviet space missions and a NASA Space Shuttle mission. Chrétien was the first Frenchman and the first western European in space.

Biography from Launch Library 2.

Born in

La Rochelle

Awards

Hero of the Soviet Union; Commander of the Legion of Honour; Knight of the National Order of Merit; Medal "For Merit in Space Exploration"; Order of Lenin; and 1 more

From Wikidata.

• Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-86Mission Specialist · Success · with David Wolf, Jim Wetherbee, Michael J. Bloomfield, Scott E. Parazynski, Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov, Wendy B. LawrenceSeptember 26, 1997
• Soyuz-U2 | Soyuz TM-7Research Cosmonaut · Success · with Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov, Sergei KrikalevNovember 26, 1988
• Soyuz-U | Soyuz T-6Research Cosmonaut · Success · with Aleksandr Ivanchenkov, Vladimir DzhanibekovJune 24, 1982 · 16:29 UTC

• PE-4 EVA6h1988-12-09

• Salyut 7 EP-1Salyut 7 · Research Cosmonaut1982-06-24 – 1982-07-02