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JEAN-FRANÇOIS CLERVOY
ESA ASTRONAUT
PERSONAL DATA: Born November 19, 1958, in Longeville-les-Metz, France. He therefore considers himself as Lorrain Mosellan, but also as Toulousain by adoption. Married to the former Laurence Boulanger. They have two children. Their parents, Jean (French Air Force, Ret.) and Mireille Clervoy, and Robert and Huliette Boulanger, reside near Paris, France. Jean-François enjoys racquet sports, skill games, canyoning, skiing, and flying activities such as boomerang, frisbee, kites.
EDUCATION: 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; graduated from Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l' Aéronautique et de l' Espace, Toulouse, in 1983; graduated as a Flight Test Engineer from Ecole du Personnel Navigant d' Essais et de Réception, Istres, in 1987.
ORGANIZATIONS: Member, Association of Space Explorers. Distinguished member of the French Aeronautics and Astronautics Association.
SPECIAL HONORS: Three NASA Space Flight Medals. Two NASA Exceptional Service Medals. Officier de l' Ordre National de la Légion d' Honneur, Chevalier de l' Ordre National du Mérite. Komarov and Koroliev Awards from the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale.
EXPERIENCE: Jean-François Clervoy holds a commission as Ingénieur General de l'Armement in the DGA. Clervoy was seconded from the Délégation Générale pour L' Armement (DGA) to CNES (French Space Agency) in 1983, where he worked on automatics and attitude control systems for several satellite projects. He was selected in the second group of French astronauts in 1985 and subsequently undertook intensive Russian language training. After graduating as a flight test engineer in 1987, he spent the next five years part-time at the Flight Test Center, Brétigny-sur-Orge, as Chief Test Director of the Parabolic Flight Program, responsible for testing and qualifying the Caravelle aircraft for microgravity, and part-time at the Hermes Crew Office, Toulouse, where he supported the European Manned Space Programs in the fields of extravehicular activity, rendezvous and docking, robotic arm, and man machine interface. In 1991, he trained in Star City, Moscow, on the Soyuz and Mir systems. In 1992, he was selected to join the astronaut corps of the European Space Agency (ESA). He holds military and civilian parachuting licenses, military and civilian diving licenses, and private pilot license. 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.
NASA EXPERIENCE: Clervoy reported to the Johnson Space Center in August 1992. Following one year of training he qualified as a mission specialist for Space Shuttle flights. Clervoy was initially assigned to the Astronaut Office Mission Development Branch where he designed a new concept of robotic steering displays. After his first space mission he was assigned as flight software verification lead in the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory (SAIL) and was responsible for designing the International Space Station (ISS) robotics displays for the Astronaut Office Mission Support Branch. Following his second space mission, he served as ISS displays integration lead for the Astronaut Office Computer Support Branch. After his third space mission, Clervoy led the crew interface and software section for the Astronaut Office Space Station Branch. A veteran of three space flights, Clervoy has logged over 674 hours in space. He served as a mission specialist on STS-66 in 1994, was the Payload Commander on STS-84 in 1997, and again served as a mission specialist on STS-103 in 1999. He is currently seconded to the ATV (Automated Transfer Vehicle) ESA project as Senior Advisor Astronaut in Les Mureaux (France).
SPACE FLIGHT EXPERIENCE: STS-66 Atlantis (November 3-14, 1994), the Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science-3 (ATLAS-3) mission was part of an ongoing program to determine the Earth's energy balance and atmospheric change over an eleven-year solar cycle. Clervoy used the robotic arm to deploy the CRISTA-SPAS atmospheric research satellite 20 hours after lift-off. The mission was accomplished in 175 Earth orbits, traveling 4.5 million miles in 262 hours and 34 minutes.
STS-84 Atlantis (May 15-24, 1997), was NASA’s sixth Shuttle mission to rendezvous and dock with the Russian Space Station Mir. As the Payload Commander, Clervoy’s primary tasks were the coordination of the execution of more than 20 experiments, the operation of the docking system and the double module SPACEHAB, and the transfer of 4 tons of equipment between Atlantis and Mir. He was also trained as a contingency spacewalker on this mission. STS-84 was accomplished in 144 Earth orbits, traveling 3.6 million miles in .221 hours and 20 minutes.
STS-103 Discovery (December 19-27, 1999), was an 8-day mission during which the crew successfully installed new instruments and upgraded systems on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Clervoy was the flight engineer for ascent, entry and rendezvous. He used the robot arm to capture and deploy the telescope, and to maneuver the suited astronauts during 3 eight hour long spacewalks required to repair and upgrade the telescope. The STS-103 mission was accomplished in 120 Earth orbits, traveling 3.2 million miles in 191 hours and 11 minutes.
JUNE 2004
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