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Patrick Baudry

Patrick Pierre Roger Baudry (born March 6, 1946 in Cameroon

Cameroon

The Republic of Cameroon is a unitary state of central and western Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo to the south....
, then a French colony), is a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the French Air Force

French Air Force

The French Air Force is the air force of the Military of France. Formed in 1909 as the Service A?ronautique, it is the world?s oldest military air service....
and a former CNES

CNES

The is the France government space agency . Its headquarters are located in central Paris. It operates out of the Centre Spatial Guyanais, but also has payloads launched from other space centres operated by other countries....
astronaut

Astronaut

An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a List of human spaceflight programs to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft....
. In 1985, he became the second French citizen in space, after Jean-Loup Chrétien

Jean-Loup Chrétien

Jean-Loup Jacques Marie Chr?tien, is a retired G?n?ral de Brigade of the Arm?e de l'Air and a former CNES astronaut who flew on several Franco-Soviet space missions and a NASA Space Shuttle mission....
, when he flew aboard NASA

NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an agency of the Federal government of the United States, responsible for the nation's public list of space agencies....
's Space Shuttle

Space Shuttle

NASA's Space Shuttle, officially called the Space Transportation System , is the spacecraft currently used by the United States government for its human spaceflight missions....
mission STS-51-G

STS-51-G

STS 51-G was the eighteenth flight of a space shuttle, and the fifth flight of Space Shuttle Discovery. The mission launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on June 17, 1985....
.

as born in Douala

Douala

Douala is the largest city in Cameroon and the capital of Cameroon's Littoral Province. Home to Cameroon's largest port and its major international airport, Douala Airport, it is the commercial capital of the country....
(United Republic of Cameroon

Cameroon

The Republic of Cameroon is a unitary state of central and western Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo to the south....
) and is married with two children from another union. His hobbies include mechanical sports, such as motorcycling and car racing.

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Patrick Pierre Roger Baudry (born March 6, 1946 in Cameroon

Cameroon

French Air Force

The French Air Force is the air force of the Military of France. Formed in 1909 as the Service A?ronautique, it is the world?s oldest military air service....
and a former CNES

CNES

Astronaut

Jean-Loup Chrétien

NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an agency of the Federal government of the United States, responsible for the nation's public list of space agencies....
's Space Shuttle

Space Shuttle

STS-51-G

STS 51-G was the eighteenth flight of a space shuttle, and the fifth flight of Space Shuttle Discovery. The mission launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on June 17, 1985....
.

Personal

He was born in Douala

Douala

Cameroon

The Republic of Cameroon is a unitary state of central and western Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo to the south....
) and is married with two children from another union. His hobbies include mechanical sports, such as motorcycling and car racing. He also enjoys running marathons, playing squash

Squash (sport)

Squash is a racquet sport game played by two players in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball. Squash is characterized as a "high-impact" exercise that can place strain on the joints, notably the knees....
, skiing

Skiing

Snow skiing is a group of sports using skis as primary equipment. Skis are used in conjunction with ski boots that connect to the ski with use of a ski bindings....
, shooting

Firearm

A firearm is a tool that projects either single or multiple projectiles at high velocity through a controlled explosion. The firing is achieved by the gases produced through rapid, confined combustion of a propellant....
, windsurfing

Windsurfing

Windsurfing, or sailboarding, is a Surface Water Sports using a windsurf board, also commonly called a sailboard, usually two to five meters long and powered by the wind pushing on a sail....
, and sky diving. Baudry is also a wine connoisseur.

Education

Prytanee National Militaire, 1965
French Airforce Academy "École de l'Air", 1967

Experience

Baudry completed flight training at Salon-de-Provence

Salon-de-Provence

Salon-de-Provence is a Communes of France in the Bouches-du-Rh?ne Departments of France in southern France. It is the location of an important Salon-de-Provence Air Base....
and Tours

Tours

Tours is a city in central France, the capital of the Indre-et-Loire Departments of France.It is located on the lower reaches of the river River Loire, between Orl?ans and the Atlantic Ocean coast....
, France

France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
, receiving his wings in 1970. Served as a fighter pilot in Fighter Squadron 1/11 "Roussillon" on F100

F-100 Super Sabre

The North American Aviation F-100 Super Sabre was a jet engine fighter aircraft that served with the United States Air Force from 1954 to 1971 and with the Air National Guard until 1979....
and Jaguar

SEPECAT Jaguar

The SEPECAT Jaguar is an United Kingdom-France jet ground attack aircraft still in service with several export customers, notably the Indian Air Force and the Royal Air Force of Oman....
, and completed numerous operational missions in several countries of Africa

Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area....
. He entered the Empire Test Pilots' School
Empire Test Pilots' School

The Empire Test Pilots' School is a training establishment based at MOD Boscombe Down in Wiltshire, England.ETPS is run as a partnership between the UK MOD and defense contractor QinetiQ, under a long term partnering agreement....
at Boscombe Down, England

England

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, in 1978, and was awarded the Patuxent River Trophy at the completion of the course. He was assigned to the Flight Test Center in Brétigny-sur-Orge

Brétigny-sur-Orge

Br?tigny-sur-Orge is a commune in France in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located . from the Kilometre Zero....
, France, in 1979, where he flew various test projects on fighter and attack-type aircraft which included flying the different types of Mirages

Mirage (aircraft)

Mirage is the name of a series of different military aircraft produced by the French aircraft manufacturer Dassault Aviation....
, Jaguar

SEPECAT Jaguar

F-8 Crusader

The F-8 Crusader was a single-engine aircraft carrier-based fighter aircraft built by Vought. It replaced the Vought F-7 Cutlass. The first F-8 prototype was ready for flight in February 1955, and was the last United States fighter with guns as the primary weapon....
.

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-100 Super Sabre

F-4 Phantom II

The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II is a two-seat, twin-engined, all-weather, long-range supersonic interceptor jet fighter/fighter-bomber originally developed for the United States Navy by McDonnell Aircraft....
, A-8, T-33

T-33

T-33 may refer to:*T-33 Shooting Star a U.S. jet trainer*T-33 Light Amphibious Tank a Soviet light tankSimilar designations:*Alfa Romeo Tipo 33...
, Lightning

English Electric Lightning

The English Electric Lightning is a supersonic jet fighter aircraft of the Cold War era, remembered for its great speed and unpainted natural metal exterior finish....
, Harrier

Harrier Jump Jet

The Harrier Jump Jet, often referred to as just "Harrier" or "the Jump Jet", is a British designed military turbofan aircraft capable of Vertical/Short Takeoff and Landing via thrust vectoring....
, Hunter

Hawker Hunter

The Hawker Hunter was a jet fighter aircraft of the 1950s and 1960s. The Hunter served for many years with the Royal Air Force and was widely exported, serving with 19 air forces....
, Canberra

B-57 Canberra

The Martin B-57 Canberra was a twin jet engine, light bomber and reconnaissance aircraft which entered service in the 1950s. Originally based on the British English Electric English Electric Canberra, the US-built B-57 had evolved into several unique variants....
, Jaguar

Jaguar

The jaguar, Panthera onca, is a New World Felidae and one of four "big cats" in the Panthera genus, along with the tiger, lion, and leopard of the Old World....
, all types of Mirages

Mirage (aircraft)

Mirage is the name of a series of different military aircraft produced by the French aircraft manufacturer Dassault Aviation....
, Mystère 4

Dassault Mystère IV

The Dassault MD.454 Myst?re IV is a 1950s French fighter-bomber aircraft....
, Vautour

Sud Aviation Vautour

The Sud Aviation S.O. 4050 Vautour II was a France bomber aircraft, interceptor aircraft, and attack aircraft used by the Arm?e de l'Air . Later, 28 of these aircraft were used by the Israeli Israeli Air Force....
, and other aircraft.

Baudry holds an airline transport pilot license. He worked for some time after his space flight at Airbus Industrie as a test pilot, and is now retired in the Aquitaine

Aquitaine

Aquitaine , archaic Guyenne/Guienne , is one of the 26 regions of France, in the south-western part of metropolitan France, along the Atlantic Ocean and the Pyrenees mountain range on the border with Spain....
region.

CNES experience

Baudry became a CNES

CNES

Star City, Russia

Star City is a military research and training facility near Shchyolkovo in Moscow Oblast, Russia, some 32 km northeast of Moscow. Cosmonauts have lived and trained in Star City at the Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Centre since the 1960s....
near Moscow

Moscow

Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
. He was a member of the back-up crew for the French-Soviet Soyuz T-6

Soyuz T-6

Soyuz T-6 was the second expedition to Salyut 7 and the tenth international crew with a cosmonaut from France....
Intercosmos mission and was trained for scientific experiments in the fields of physiology, biology, materials processing in space, and astronomy. 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

Hermes (shuttle)

Hermes was a proposed spaceplane designed by the French Centre national d'?tudes spatiales in 1975, and later by the European Space Agency, which was superficially similar to the US X-20....
" space aircraft.

Spaceflight experience

Baudry flew as a payload specialist

Payload Specialist

In NASA vernacular, a 'Payload Specialist' was an individual selected and trained by commercial or research organizations for flights of a specific payload on a Space Shuttle mission....
on STS-51-G

STS-51-G

Kennedy Space Center

The John F. Kennedy Space Center is the NASA space vehicle launch facility and Launch Control Center on Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard County, Florida, United States....
, Florida

Florida

Florida is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States of the United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the northeast....
, and returned to land at Edwards Air Force Base

Edwards Air Force Base

Edwards Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located on the border of Kern County, California and Los Angeles County, California in the Antelope Valley....
, California

California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja 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, Baudry traveled 2.5 million miles in 112 Earth orbits, logging over 169 hours in space.

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 "Confrérie du Bontemps".

Awards and honors

Chevalier of the Legion of Honour

Légion d'honneur

The L?gion d'honneur or Ordre national de la L?gion d'honneur is a France order established by Napoleon I of France, First Consul of the French First Republic, on May 19, 1802....
; Chevalier of the National Merit Order

Ordre National du Mérite

The Ordre national du M?rite is an Order awarded by the President of the French Republic. It was founded on December 3, 1963 by President Charles de Gaulle....
; French Astronautics Medal; the Soviet Order of "Amitié des Peuples" and the Soviet Order of Gagarine.

Patrick Baudry

Personal

Education

Experience

CNES experience

Spaceflight experience

Organizations

Awards and honors

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