Jean-François Clervoy
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| Jean-François Clervoy | |
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| ESA spationaut | |
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| Status | Active |
| Born | November 19, 1958 Longeville-lès-Metz, France |
| Other occupation | Test Pilot, Engineer |
| Rank | Ingénieur Général de 2e classe |
| Time in space | 28d 03h 05m |
| Selection | 1992 ESA Group |
| Missions | STS-66, STS-84, STS-103 |
| Mission insignia |    |
Jean-François André Clervoy (born 19 November 1958) is a French engineer and an ESA spationaut. He is a veteran of three NASA Space Shuttle missions.
Clervoy was born in Longeville-lès-Metz, France. He has a twin brother, Patrick, a military physician. He graduated from high-school in Saint-Cyr Lycee, and then joined a class for preparation of "Grandes Ecoles" being admitted to the Ecole Polytechnique. Later he joined the SUPAERO engineering school and finally he was accepted at the EPNER (Ecole du Personnel Navigant d'Essais et Reception) a test pilot/engineer school based in Istres (south of France). There he trained as a test engineer. He was selected as an spationaut candidate by France in 1985 and trained extensively at the Russian Star City before being named to the European Space Agency's astronaut corps in 1992. He flew on three Space Shuttle flights as a mission specialist, STS-66 in 1994, STS-84 in 1997, and STS-103 in 1999, a Hubble Space Telescope repair mission.
He is now working on the Automated Transfer Vehicle program as support spationaut. He is also president of Novespace, the European company which provides zero-g flights with an Airbus A300.
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