# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-jacques-favier
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:24:42.858Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jean-jacques-favier"
name: "Jean-Jacques Favier"
slug: "jean-jacques-favier"
description: "Jean-Jacques Favier was a German-born French engineer and a CNES astronaut who flew aboard the STS-78 NASA Space Shuttle mission in 1996. Favier was due to fly aboard the doomed Columbia mission in 2003 (STS-107), but later opted out of the mission. Jean-Jacques Favier was deputy director for space technology and deputy director for advanced concepts and strategy at CNES, director of the Solidification Laboratory at the French Atomic Energy Commission and research program director at the International Space University."
tagline: "French astronaut (1949–2023)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jean-Jacques_Favier.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1949-04-13"
deathDate: "2023-03-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump