Claude Nicollier is a Swiss astronaut and the first person from Switzerland to reach space. He was selected by the European Space Agency in July 1978 as a member of the first group of European astronauts and later joined NASA Astronaut Group 9 in 1980 as a mission specialist, becoming the first non-American to become a full-time NASA astronaut. He flew four Space Shuttle missions between 1992 and 1999, including both Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions, STS-61 in 1993 and STS-103 in 1999, and conducted his only spacewalk on the second of those, becoming the first ESA astronaut to perform a spacewalk on a Space Shuttle mission.
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1. Claude Nicollier (Wikipedia)
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Claude Nicollier (born 2 September 1944) is the first astronaut from Switzerland.
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Nicollier became a mission specialist
Operated By: European Space Agency, Lead paragraph, operated-by
During his final spaceflight he participated in a spacewalk, becoming the first European Space Agency astronaut to do so during a Space Shuttle mission (previous ESA astronauts conducted spacewalks aboard Mir, see List of spacewalks and moonwalks 1965-1999).
Associated With: European Space Agency, Lead paragraph, associated-with
During his final spaceflight he participated in a spacewalk, becoming the first European Space Agency astronaut to do so during a Space Shuttle mission (previous ESA astronauts conducted spacewalks aboard Mir, see List of spacewalks and moonwalks 1965-1999).
In Group: European Space Agency Astronauts, Lead sentence
During his final spaceflight he participated in a spacewalk, becoming the first European Space Agency astronaut to do so during a Space Shuttle mission (previous ESA astronauts conducted spacewalks aboard Mir, see List of spacewalks and moonwalks 1965-1999).
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1944
3. The Space Devs Launch Library 2: Launch Library 2 astronaut list, records 1 to 100
The Space Devs Launch Library 2Astronaut record 2, Claude NicollierQuote, Astronaut record 2, Claude Nicollier
"name": "Claude Nicollier" ... "flights_count": 4
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