Jean-Jacques Favier

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**Jean-Jacques Favier**
Spationaut

Nationality	French
Born	April 13, 1949 (age 57) Kehl, Germany
Occupation¹	Engineer
Space time	16d 21h 48m
Selection	1985
Mission(s)	STS-78
Mission insignia
¹ previous or current

Jean-Jacques Favier (Born April 13, 1949),(Ph.D.) is a French astronaut. Payload Specialist (France)

1 Personal data
2 Education
3 Organizations
4 Special honors
5 Experience
6 Current assignment
7 External links

[edit] Personal data

Born in Kehl, Germany, he married Michele Jean. They have four children. He enjoys downhill skiing, tennis, wind-surfing, and archeology.

[edit] Education

Attended primary and secondary schools in Strasbourg, France
1971: Received an engineering degree from the National Polytechnical Institute of Grenoble
1977: Earned a Ph.D. in engineering from the Mining School of Paris
1977: Earned a Ph.D. in metallurgy and physics from the University of Grenoble

[edit] Organizations

Research Engineer, Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique (CEA), 1976-1979
Head Solidification Group 1970-1986
Head of Laboratory 1986-1989
Head Solidification and Crystal Growth Service, 1989 to 1993
Cons. European Space Agency (ESA)
Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), Paris 1983 to present
Astronaut Candidate CNES, Paris 1985 to present
Member of Space Station User Panel of ESA.

[edit] Special honors

Recipient Zellidja Association 2nd prize, French Academy Literature 1970, E. Brun Price Award French Academy Sciences
Member of International Organization of Crystal Growth
Member of American Association of Crystal Growth
Societe Francaise de Metallurgie
Groupe Francais de Croissance Cristalline (Committee Chairman)
Visiting Professor at University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) (1994-95)
Member of the Space Science Committee of the European Science Foundation (ESF)
Several patents on crystal growth processes, furnaces and insitu diagnosis
Published more than 80 research articles in refereed scientific journals and books.

[edit] Experience

Dr. Favier is currently the Advisor of the Director of the Material Science Research Center (CEREM) at the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) and is presently detached to CNES. He proposed the MEPHISTO program, a collaborative project between the French Space Agency and NASA, and has developed many other scientific projects in collaboration with the United States since 1985. He is the principal investigator (P.I.) for a MEPHISTO materials processing experiment, which made its debut on the United States Microgravity Payload in 1992 and 1994 and is scheduled for subsequent Space Shuttle flights, the next being STS-75 in 1996. He has been a CNES payload specialist candidate since 1985. He has been P.I. of more than 10 space experiments in collaboration with ESA, NASA, and the Russians.

Dr. Favier was assigned as an alternate payload specialist on STS-65/IML-2, the second International Migrogravity Laboratory mission, and supported the mission as a Crew Interface Coordinator (CIC/APS) from the Payload Operations Control Center (POCC) at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

Dr. Favier flew on STS-78 and has logged over 405 hours in space. STS-78 Columbia (June 20 to July 7, 1996) was a 16-day Life and Microgravity Spacelab mission. It included studies sponsored by ten nations and five space agencies, was the first mission to combine both a full microgravity studies agenda and a comprehensive life science investigation, and served as a model for future studies on board the International Space Station. STS-78 orbited the Earth 271 times, covering 7 million miles in 405 hours, 48 minutes.

[edit] Current assignment

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