Patrick Baudry Education Experience CNES Experience

Lieutenant Colonel Baudry completed flight training at Salon-de-Provence and Tours, France, receiving his wings in 1970. Served as a fighter pilot in Fighter Squadron 1/11 "Roussillon" on F100 and JaguarThe SEPECAT Jaguar is an Anglo-French ground attack aircraft in service with the Armee de l'Air, the Royal Air Force and several export customers, notably India. It was the product of the world's first bi-national military aircraft program. The Jaguar pro, and completed numerous operational missions in several countries of AfricaAfrica is the world's second-largest continent in both area and population, after Asia. 30,244,050 km2 (11,677,240 mi2) including the islands, it covers 20. 3% of the total land area on Earth, and with over 800 million human inhabitants it accounts for ar. He entered the " Empire Test Pilot School " at Boscombe Down , EnglandEngland is the largest, the most populous, and the most densely populated of the four " Home Nations" which make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK). Occupying the south-eastern portion of the island of Great Britain, England, in 1978, and was awarded the Patuxent River Trophy at the completion of the course. He was assigned to the Flight Test Center in Bretigny-sur-Orge , France, in 1979, where he flew various test projects on fighter and attack-type aircraft which included flying the different types of Mirages, JaguarThe SEPECAT Jaguar is an Anglo-French ground attack aircraft in service with the Armee de l'Air, the Royal Air Force and several export customers, notably India. It was the product of the world's first bi-national military aircraft program. The Jaguar pro, and Crusaderdigital fly-by-wire testbed ( NASA) The F-8 Crusader (originally F8U was an aircraft carrier-based fighter aircraft built by Chance-Vought of Dallas, Texas. It was first manufactured in March 1957. It was the last US fighter with guns as its primary weapo.

He has logged more than 4,000 hours flying time - 3,300 in jet aircraft - and has flown over 100 different types of aircraft - F-100, F-104, F-4, A-8 , T-33, Lightning, Harrier, Hunter, Canberra, Jaguar, all types of Mirages, Mystère 4 , Vautour , and other aircraft.

3 CNES experience

Lieutenant Colonel Baudry became a CNES astronaut in June 1980. For two years, he trained at CNES and at Star City near Moscow. He was a member of the back-up crew of the French-Soviet mission and was trained for scientific experiments in the fields of physiology, biology, materials processing in space, and astronomy. Lieutenant Colonel Baudry is a CNES expert for manned space flight activities and participates in the analysis of decisions and study of definition for the future " Hermes" space aircraft.

4 NASA space flight experience

Lieutenant Colonel Baudry flew as a payload specialist on STS-51-G Discovery (June 17-24, 1985). STS-51-G was launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, and returned to land at Edwards Air Force Base, California. The international crew aboard Discovery deployed communications satellites for Mexico (Morelos), the Arab League (Arabsat), and the United States (AT&T Telstar). They deployed and later retrieved the SPARTAN satellite, which performed 17 hours of x-ray astronomy experiments while separated from the Space Shuttle. In completing this flight, Lieutenant Colonel Baudry traveled 2.5 million miles in 112 Earth orbits, logging over 169 hours in space.

5 Personal data

Born in Douala ( United Republic of Cameroon ). Married. One child. Hobbies include mechanical sports, such as motorcycling and car racing. He also enjoys running marathons, playing squash, skiing, gun-firing , windsurfing, and sky diving. Lieutenant Colonel Baudry is also a wine connoisseur.

6 Organizations

Association of European Astronauts ; correspondent of the Air and Space Academy ; and member of several wine tasters' confreries, such as " Chevaliers du Tastevin ," " Jurade de St Emilion ", and " Confrerie du Contemps ".

7 Special honors

Chevalier of the Legion of Honour; Chevalier of the National Merit Order; French Astronautics Medal; the Soviet Order of "Amitié des Peuples" and the Soviet Order of Gagarine .

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