EUobserver: Claudie Haigneré — ‘Girls who see women as leaders, grow into those roles more freely’
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Claudie Haigneré
Claudie Haigneré is a French doctor, former politician and retired astronaut. The first female astronaut of the French Space Agency (CNES) and the European Space Agency (ESA) to go to space and to visit the ISS, she later was a government minister under Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin.
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science · French astronaut, politician and doctor (born 1957) · astronaut · politician · physician · also Claudie Haigneré, Claudie André-Deshays, Claudie Haignere, Haigneré
Born 13 May 1957 · Q235580
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2023· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit (2023).
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2018· 1 entry
Haigneré agreed to chair the jury of the DStv Eutelsat Star Awards, which is an annual pan-African student competition in which students write an essay or create a poster focusing on science and technology fields as a so
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2011· 2 entries
Awarded Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour (2011).
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Won Medal "For Merit in Space Exploration" (2011).
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2009· 1 entry
Haigneré was named as the founding director of Universcience
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2007· 1 entry
Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (2007).
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2004· 1 entry
Career landmark: Minister of European Affairs of France (2004–2005).
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2002· 2 entries
SpaceNews: ESA astronaut Claudie Haignere appointed minister
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Career landmark: Minister of Research and Technology of France (2002–2004).
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2001· 2 entries
SpaceNews: Mission Accomplished for Claudie Haignere
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Became the first European woman to visit the International Space Station
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2000· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Friendship (2000).
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1999· 1 entry
Haigneré commanded a Soyuz capsule during reentry and became the first woman qualified to do so
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1996· 1 entry
Haigneré agreed to a request from Dominique Baudis, mayor of Toulouse, that she be the honorary patron of the Cité de l’espace scientific discovery centre
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1994· 1 entry
Claudie Haigneré began training at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, for the Franco-Russian Cassiopeia mission and learned Russian during her time there
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1993· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Friendship of Peoples (1993).
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1986· 1 entry
Received a diploma in the biomechanics and physiology of movement and received her doctorates in rheumatology (1984) and neuroscience (1992)
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1985· 1 entry
France's space center selected only six men and one woman—Claudie Haigneré—to go to space
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1957· 1 entry
Born 1957-05-13.
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