'The passing of astronaut Jean-Jacques Favier leaves a great void in the space world: CNES has lost one of its own.'
"For a scientist like me, [the most incredible aspect of being aboard the shuttle] was being able to conduct my own experiments in space. That was very exciting from a professional point of view," Favierhosted by the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology in Moscow."Basically, I brought my experiments full-circle.
He received an engineering degree from the National Polytechnical Institute of Grenoble in France in 1971, and earned doctorate degrees in engineering and in metallurgy and physics, respectively, from the Mining School of Paris and the University of Grenoble in 1977. Favier was serving as a research engineer, heading up the solidification group and advising the director of the Material Science Research Center at the French Atomic Energy Commission , when he applied and was subsequently selected by CNES to become an astronaut. Initially, he was considered for a flight with the Russians to the"So I started my training [in] Russia, but it only lasted for about six weeks — until we started training on thecapsule," he recalled.
Fortunately, he was also the principal investigator for MEPHISTO, a joint CNES and NASA furnace system, which had already been flown on several space shuttle missions, which opened the door to his also flying on the U.S. winged orbiter. Prior to his own launch, Favier was assigned as an alternate payload specialist on STS-65, the second International Migrogravity Laboratory mission, in 1994. He supported the mission as a crew interface coordinator from the Payload Operations Control Center at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
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