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Jean-Jacques Favier

1949 - 2023

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Jean-Jacques Favier (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ ʒak favje]; 13 April 1949 – 19 March 2023) was a German-born French engineer and a CNES astronaut who flew aboard the STS-78 NASA Space Shuttle mission in 1996. Favier was due to fly aboard the doomed Columbia mission in 2003 (STS-107), but later opted out of the mission. Jean-Jacques Favier was deputy director for space technology and deputy director for advanced concepts and strategy at CNES, director of the Solidification Laboratory at the French Atomic Energy Commission and research program director at the International Space University. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean-Jacques Favier is the 285th most popular astronaut (down from 238th in 2019), the 5,397th most popular biography from Germany (down from 5,278th in 2019) and the 6th most popular German Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Jean-Jacques Favier ranks 285 out of 556. Before him are John Oliver Creighton, Steven R. Nagel, Brewster H. Shaw, Marcos Pontes, Norman Thagard, and Fei Junlong. After him are Franz Viehböck, Pamela Melroy, Vasily Tsibliyev, Gennadi Manakov, Klaus-Dietrich Flade, and Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Jean-Jacques Favier ranks 612. Before him are Ivan Stoyanov, Wenceslao Padilla, Owen Arthur, Nikolai Pankin, David Cross, and Leslie Valiant. After him are Jon Avnet, Ricardo Londoño, Steve Gaines, Harry Turtledove, Michael Horse, and Thomas Bopp. Among people deceased in 2023, Jean-Jacques Favier ranks 478. Before him are Kenneth McAlpine, Italo Galbiati, Birger Jensen, Vítězslav Mácha, Rolf Harris, and Jan Mrvík. After him are Anderl Molterer, Christo Jivkov, Hans-Werner Gessmann, Inga Swenson, Cēzars Ozers, and Walter Mirisch.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Jean-Jacques Favier ranks 5,400 out of 7,253. Before him are Barbara Hendricks (1952), Ronald Worm (1953), Christa Luding-Rothenburger (1959), Hannelore Anke (1957), Romy Müller (1958), and Ruth Moufang (1905). After him are Erik Zabel (1970), Markus Rühl (1972), Detlef Schrempf (1963), Franz Keller (1945), Achim Müller (1938), and Volker Strassen (1936).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Germany

Among astronauts born in Germany, Jean-Jacques Favier ranks 6. Before him are Sigmund Jähn (1937), Ulf Merbold (1941), Hans Schlegel (1951), Thomas Reiter (1958), and Ernst Messerschmid (1945). After him are Klaus-Dietrich Flade (1952), Ulrich Walter (1954), Reinhold Ewald (1956), Gerhard Thiele (1953), Alexander Gerst (1976), and Matthias Maurer (1970).

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