Michel Tognini

French astronaut · France · On the map · Astronauts · Born 1949 · age 77

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 of the European Astronaut Centre of the European Space Agency.

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A life in dates

2011Medal "For Merit in Space Exploration"Award1992Order of Friendship of PeoplesAward1988Order of Friendship of PeoplesAward1949Born30 September 1949

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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.

Awards

Medal "For Merit in Space Exploration"2011

Order of Friendship of Peoples1992

Order of Friendship of Peoples1988

Commander of the Legion of Honour

Officer of the National Order of Merit

National Order of Merit

Aeronautical Medal

NASA Space Flight Medal

About this person

A veteran of two space flights, Tognini has logged a total of 19 days in space. Tognini has 4000 flight hours on 80 types of aircraft. He is fluent in English and Russian.

Country

France

Astronauts from France 6

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Arnaud Prost46.1 of 100

Philippe Perrin49.9 of 100

Jean-Jacques Favier46.0 of 100

Jean-Pierre Haigneré50.5 of 100

Patrick Baudry50.9 of 100