Jean-Loup Chretien is a French Air Force pilot who became the first citizen of Western Europe to fly in space, launching aboard a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft in June 1982 to the Salyut 7 space station as part of a bilateral French-Soviet spaceflight agreement. He later flew a second mission to the Mir space station in 1988, during which he performed a spacewalk, and he subsequently trained with NASA and flew a Space Shuttle mission in 1997, becoming the only person to have flown on both Soviet and American launch systems as of that flight.
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1938-08-20
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a French retired
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as part of NASA Astronaut Group 15 to officially become an International Mission Specialist with NASA.
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he was named as the research cosmonaut for the prime crew of the Soyuz T-6 mission
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Jean-Loup Jacques Marie Chrétien (born 20 August 1938) is a French retired Général de Brigade (brigadier general) in the Armée de l'Air (French air force), and a former CNES spationaut.
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Jean-Loup Jacques Marie Chrétien (born 20 August 1938) is a French retired Général de Brigade (brigadier general) in the Armée de l'Air (French air force), and a former CNES spationaut.
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Jean-Loup Jacques Marie Chrétien (born 20 August 1938) is a French retired Général de Brigade (brigadier general) in the Armée de l'Air (French air force), and a former CNES spationaut.
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