Claudie Haigneré
Claudie Haigneré | |
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| Born | 13 May 1957 Le Creusot, France |
| Status | Retired |
| Occupations | Rheumatologist Astronaut |
| Awards | |
| Space career | |
| CNES/ESA astronaut | |
Time in space | 25d 14h 22min |
| Selection | 1985 CNES Group 2 1999 ESA Group |
| Missions | Soyuz TM-24/Soyuz TM-23 (Mir-Cassiopée), Soyuz TM-33/Soyuz TM-32 (ISS-Andromède) |
Mission insignia | |
Claudie Haigneré (French pronunciation: [klodi ɛɲəʁe]; née André; formerly Deshays; born 13 May 1957) is a French doctor, former politician and retired astronaut. The first female astronaut of the French Space Agency (CNES) and the European Space Agency (ESA) to go to space and to visit the ISS, she later was a government minister under Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin.