Léopold Eyharts

Léopold Eyharts , born with Biarritz, the April 28th 1957 is spationaut of the European space agency (ESA),

Formation

Activities of spationaut

He takes part in a single flight on board Soyuz TM-27, the January 29th 1998.

Today

Léopold Eyharts in Paris, the 6/15/2007

Léopold Eyharts is affected at the office of the spationauts of NASA to the Johnson Space Center, Houston. He works on projects concerning ISS. It is expected that it accompanies the module by the European Laboratoire Columbus on board the Space shuttle Atlantis at the time of the mission STS-122 in December 2007.

Decorations

Léopold Eyharts was decorated with the Légion of honor, of the National order of the merit and the Médaille of Overseas. It also received the Russian medal of the Friendship and Courage.

Experiment of soldiers and flight

It joined the Flying school of Living room-of-Provence in 1977 and received an aeronautical diploma for the occupation of engineer in 1979. In 1980, it became pilot of combat and was affected at an operational squadron of Jaguar of the air base of Istres (France). In 1985, it was affected as a commander of escradrile to the air base of Saint-Dizier.

In 1988, it received a diploma for the occupation of test pilot of the French school of test pilot (EPNER) and was affected in the flight test center of Bretigny close to Paris. It then flew on various types of civil aircrafts and military, including/understanding the Mirage 2000, alpha-jet, mirage 3, the Caravelle, the C-160 mainly implied in the radar and the tests of equipment.

It added up 3500 hours of flight as a pilot of combat and test on 40 different types of plane, 21 jumps in parachute of which an ejection.

Career with CNES and ESA

In 1990, Léopold Eyharts was selected as an astronaut by CNES (the national center of Space studies) and assigned to support the program of spaceplane of Hermes controlled by Hermes to be used as team-member the office with Toulouse.

It became one of the test pilots responsible for the parabolic programme of flights of CNES, an experimental plane (Caravel) arrived by the center of test of flight of Bretigny to provide a laboratory of microgravity to the scientific community. In 1994, it was responsible for the parabolic in-flight test of the replacement of Caravel, a Airbus A300 which becomes operational in 1995.

In 1992, Eyharts took part in the second choice of astronaut of European Space Agency. After the same year, it took part in an evaluation of ESA of the Russian formation of space shuttle of “Buran” with Moscow, where it stole in the flight simulator of Buran of the Tupolev 154.

It also took part in two additional training courses of space flight of short-duration hold the first role inside the city, Moscow - six weeks in 1991 and two weeks in 1993.

Eyharts was assigned with the full formation of space flight in January 1995. He was exerted as a cosmonaut of help for the mission of space French-Russian of “Cassiopeia”, which took place in August 1996.

He was the principal cosmonaut for the scientific mission of space of continuation CNES called “PEGASE. ” It flew to the space station of MIR in February 1998. During the three weeks mission of PEGASE it carried out various French experiments in the sector of the medical research, neurology, biology, liquid physics and technology. By achieving its first mission of space, it noted 20 days, 18 hours and 20 minutes in space.

In August 1998, Eyharts was assigned by the European Space Agency to the train in the center of the space of Johnson of NASA to Houston, with the Texas. As an element of the international astronauts of the 1998 classifies, it attended the training of candidate of astronaut that the briefings and the excursions included of orientation, the many scientific and technical briefings, the intensive instruction in the shuttle and the international systems of space station, the physiological formation and the ground inform to prepare for the formation of the flight T-38, as well as of the techniques of study of survival of water and desert. It was used in technical tasks until assigned for a space flight.

It is expected that it is launched on December 6th, 2007 on board STS-122 towards the international space station, where it will join the Expédition 16. It will take part in the installation of the European laboratory Columbus. It will turn over on ground with the mission STS-123.

External bonds

Detail of the flights on spacefacts.de
a French astronaut soon on the ISS - Article Le Figaro
(ESA) the astronaut of the ESA Léopold Eyharts indicated to accompany the European laboratory Columbus towards the ISS
(ESA) Léopold Eyharts, the man who will wake up Columbus with the life
Biographie on the site of NASA

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