Michel Tognini
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Michel Ange-Charles Tognini is a French test pilot, engineer, brigadier general in the French Air Force, and a former CNES and ESA astronaut who served from 1 January 2005 to 1 November 2011 as head o
Michel Tognini
CNES astronaut Michel Tognini works with a nitrogen freezer on the STS-93 Space Shuttle mission, which supported the Plant Growth Investigations in Microgravity (PGIM) and Biological Research in Canisters (BRIC) experiments on this mission which took place in 1999. This mission also launched the Chandra X-ray telescope.
NASA Astronaut Group 15
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NASA Astronaut Group 15 was a group of 23 NASA astronauts announced on December 8, 1994. Group members adopted The Flying Escargot as their moniker, in reference to two members of the group being from
Michel Tognini
…Pilot Space career CNES/ESA astronaut Status Retired Rank Brigadier General, French Air Force Time in space 18d 17h 46m Selection 1985 CNES Group 2, NASA Group 15 (1994), 1999 ESA Group Missions Soyuz TM-15/14, STS-93 Mission insignia CNES astronaut Michel Tognini works with a nitrogen freezer on the STS-93 Space Shuttle…
The astronauts of Group 15