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Personal: Female, Married. Born in Le Creusot, Burgundy, France. Doctorate degree in biology and sports medicine from the University of Gyjon, 1981. Professor at Cochin Hospital in Paris. Astronaut Career Astronaut Group: CNES Group 1 - 1985. Inactive Entered space service: 9 September 1985. Left space service: 2001. Number of Flights: 2.00. Total Time: 25.60 days. Transferred to International Space Cooperation Group 2. From June 2002 to 2005, Minister for Research and New Technologies in the French government. Modern art (painting, sculpture), reading, sports (gymnastics, golf).
Andre-Deshays Spaceflight Log
Andre-Deshays Chronology 9 September 1985 - CNES Astronaut Training Group 1 selected.. French astronauts trained for flights to the Mir space station. 1 July 1993 - Soyuz TM-17. Assignment: Backup Crew. Flight: Mir EO-14, Mir Altair, Mir EO-13. Mir Expedition EO-14. Carried Vasili Tsibliyev, Alexander Serebrov, Jean-Pierre Haignere to Mir; returned Serebrov, Tsibliyev to Earth. Progress M-18 undocked from Mir's front port at around 17:25 GMT on July 3, and Soyuz TM-17 docked at the same port only 20 minutes later at 17:45 GMT. 17 August 1996 - Soyuz TM-24. Assignment: Prime Crew. Flight: Mir EO-22, Mir Cassiopee, Mir NASA-1, Mir EO-21. Mir Expedition EO-22. Valeriy Korzun and Aleksandr Kaleri of the Russian Space Agency (RKA) Claudie Andre-Deshays of the French space agency CNES. This launch was the first of the Soyuz-U booster with a crew aboard following two launch failures of on unmanned flights. Soyuz docked with Mir's front port at 14:50:21 GMT on August 19; Mir was in a 375 x 390 km x 51.6 deg orbit. On Feb 7 at 16:28:01 GMT the EO-22 crew and American astronaut Linenger undocked the Soyuz TM-24 ferry from the front docking port, flew it around to the far side of the complex and redocked at the rear Kvant port at 16:51:27 GMT. This cleared the forward port for the arrival of the EO-23 crew, who brought with them German astronaut Reinhold Ewald on Feb 12. 2 September 1996 - Landing of Soyuz TM-23. Assignment: Return Crew. Flight: Mir EO-22, Mir Cassiopee, Mir NASA-1, Mir EO-21. The spacecraft undocked on September 2 at 04:20 GMT, and made a small seperation burn at 04:24:40 GMT. Deorbit was at 06:47:20 GMT. The three modules separated at 07:14:36 and the parachute deployed at 07:26 GMT. The landing was at 07:41:40 GMT, 100 km SW of Akmola in Kazakstan with Yuri Onufrienko, Yuriy Usachyov and Claudie Andre-Deshays aboard. This concluded the French 'Cassiopee' mission. 21 October 2001 - Soyuz TM-33. Assignment: Prime Crew. Flight: ISS EP-2. Soyuz TM-33, an ISS lifeboat, carried two Russian and one French cosmonaut to the International Space Station (ISS). It docked with the ISS at 10:00 UT on 23 October. This new crew spent eight days on the ISS, and returned on the older Soyuz TM-32 at 03:59 UT on 31 October. The new Soyuz was to remain docked as a lifeboat craft for the long-term ISS crew of three (two Russian and one American) astronauts. On May 5, 2002, after a week aboard the station, the visting Soyuz TM-34 crew moved to the old Soyuz TM-33, docked at the Pirs port. They undocked at 0031:08 UTC on May 5, leaving the EO-4 crew of Onufrienko, Walz and Bursch with the new Soyuz TM-34 as their rescue vehicle. Soyuz TM-33 made its deorbit burn at 0257 UTC and landed successfully at 0352 UTC 25 km SE of Arkalyk. 31 October 2001 - Landing of Soyuz TM-32. Assignment: Return Crew. Flight: ISS EP-2. The EP-2 crew - Afanasyev, Kozeyev and Andre-Deshays - undocked Soyuz TM-32 from the Pirs module at 01:38:30 GMT on October 31. The deorbit burn was at 04:04 GMT, with landing 180 km southeast of Dzhezkazgan at 04:59:26 GMT. This left the Expedition-3 crew of Culbertston, Dezhurov and Tyurin with Soyuz TM-33, docked with the Zarya module, as the station lifeboat. Bibliography and Further Reading
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