W tym roku mija 25 lat od lotów pierwszych Europejczyków na ISS.
Druga osoba z Europy na pokładzie ISS.
Pierwszą był
Umberto Guidoni.
First European woman to fly to ISS
Claudie Haigneré (formerly André-Deshays) is a doctor and politician, and has flown in space twice, as an astronaut of the French space agency CNES and then ESA. Here she is having lunch on board the ISS during the ESA/CNES Andromède mission in October 2001 (she was the first European woman to visit the International Space Station).
Claudie was selected as a French candidate astronaut in 1985 by CNES. Claudie was a back-up crew member for the 1993 Altaïr mission in which her future husband Jean-Pierre Haigneré visited the Russian Mir space station The asteroid 135268 Haigneré is named in their combined honour. Claudie visited the Mir space station herself for 16 days in 1996, as part of the Russian-French Cassiopée mission.
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