Jean-François Clervoy
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| CNES/ESA Astronaut | |
| Nationality | French |
| Status | Active |
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19 November 1958 Longeville-lès-Metz, France |
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Other occupation
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Senior astronaut of the European Astronaut Center and Novespace Chairman |
| Rank | Ingénieur Général de 2e classe (Brigadier General, Corps of Ordnance Engineers) |
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Time in space
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28d 03h 05m |
| Selection | 1985 CNES Group 2, 1992 ESA Group, 1992 NASA Group 14 |
| Missions | STS-66, STS-84, STS-103 |
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Mission insignia
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Jean-François André Clervoy (born 19 November 1958) is a French engineer and a CNES and ESA astronaut. He is a veteran of three NASA Space Shuttle missions.
Clervoy was born 19 November 1958 in Longeville-lès-Metz, France. He therefore considers himself as Lorrain Mosellan, but also as Toulousain by adoption. He has a twin brother, Patrick, a military physician. He is married to Laurence Boulanger and they have two children. Clervoy enjoys racquet sports, skill games, canyoning, skiing, and flying activities such as boomerang, frisbee, kites.
Received his baccalauréat from Collège Militaire de Saint Cyr l'Ecole in 1976; passed Math. Sup. and Math. Spé. M' at Prytanée Militaire, La Flèche in 1978. Graduated from Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, in 1981, he became a member of the Corps of Armament. He graduated from École nationale supérieure de l'aéronautique et de l'espace, Toulouse, in 1983; graduated as a Flight Test Engineer from École du personnel navigant d'essais et de réception, Istres, in 1987. Clervoy is Ingénieur Général de l'Armement (in the French defense procurement agency DGA).
In 1983 Clervoy was seconded from the Délégation Générale pour L'Armement (DGA) to CNES (French Space Agency) where he works on autopilot systems for various projects such as the earth observation satellite SPOT, the optical inter-satellite space link STAR or the comet probe VEGA.
He was selected in the second group of French astronauts in 1985 and started intensive Russian language training. From 1987 until 1992 he directed the parabolic flight program at the Flight Test Center, Brétigny-sur-Orge and provided technical support to the European human space program within the ESA Hermes crew office in Toulouse. From 1983 to 1987, Clervoy was also a lecturer in signal processing and general mechanics at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace, Toulouse.
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