Claudie Haigneré
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| CNES/ESA astronaut | |
| Nationality | French |
| Status | Retired |
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13 May 1957 Le Creusot, France |
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Other occupation
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Independent CEO at France Telecom |
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Time in space
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25d 14h 22min |
| Selection |
1985 CNES Group 2 1999 ESA Group |
| Missions |
Soyuz TM-24, Mir-Cassiopée, TM-23, Soyuz TM-33, ISS-Andromède, TM-32 |
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Claudie (André-Deshays) Haigneré (born 13 May 1957) is a French doctor, politician, and former astronaut with the Centre National d'Études Spatiales (1985–1999) and the European Space Agency (1999–2002).
Born in Le Creusot, France, Haigneré studied medicine at the Faculté de Médecine (Paris-Cochin) and Faculté des Sciences (Paris-VII). She went on to obtain certificates in biology and sports medicine (1981), aviation and space medicine (1982), and rheumatology (1984). In 1986 she received a diploma in the biomechanics and physiology of movement. She completed her PhD thesis in neuroscience in 1992. Married to Jean-Pierre Haigneré, also a former astronaut.
Haigneré was a back-up crew member for the 1993 Mir Altaïr mission in which her future husband Jean-Pierre Haigneré participated. The asteroid 135268 Haigneré is named in their combined honour. Haigneré visited the Mir space station for 16 days in 1996, as part of the Russian-French Cassiopée mission. In 2001, Haigneré became the first European woman to visit the International Space Station, as part of the ''Andromède'' mission. She retired from ESA on 18 June 2002.
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