Flight Testing : from jet fighters to solar impulse
Cancelled
Event details
| Date | 10.12.2014 |
| Hour | 17:00 › 19:30 |
| Speaker | Prof. Claude Nicollier |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Aéropoly has the great honor to welcome Mr Claude Nicollier on Wednesday, December 10th from 17h in the CO1 auditorium. Astrophysicist astronaut and a brilliant pilot, Mr Nicollier will tell us about his great test pilot career, evoking his experience in various aviation backgrounds.
Bio: Claude Nicollier is the first Swiss astronaut, and has flown on four Space Shuttle missions. His first spaceflight (STS-46) was in 1992, and his final spaceflight (STS-103) was in 1999. He took part in two servicing missions to the Hubble Space Telescope (called STS-61 and STS-103). During his final spaceflight he participated in a spacewalk, becoming the first European Space Agency astronaut to do so during a Space Shuttle mission (previous ESA astronauts conducted spacewalks aboard Mir, see List of spacewalks and moonwalks 1965–1999). In 2000 he was assigned to the Astronaut Office Extravehicular Activity Branch, while maintaining a position as Lead ESA astronaut in Houston. Nicollier retired from ESA in April 2007.
He was appointed full professor of Spatial Technology at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne on 28 March 2007.
He is an expert board member of Swiss Space Systems.
Bio: Claude Nicollier is the first Swiss astronaut, and has flown on four Space Shuttle missions. His first spaceflight (STS-46) was in 1992, and his final spaceflight (STS-103) was in 1999. He took part in two servicing missions to the Hubble Space Telescope (called STS-61 and STS-103). During his final spaceflight he participated in a spacewalk, becoming the first European Space Agency astronaut to do so during a Space Shuttle mission (previous ESA astronauts conducted spacewalks aboard Mir, see List of spacewalks and moonwalks 1965–1999). In 2000 he was assigned to the Astronaut Office Extravehicular Activity Branch, while maintaining a position as Lead ESA astronaut in Houston. Nicollier retired from ESA in April 2007.
He was appointed full professor of Spatial Technology at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne on 28 March 2007.
He is an expert board member of Swiss Space Systems.
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Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- Aéropoly
Contact
- Eric Nguyen Van ([email protected]), Gustavo Rios ([email protected]), Yassine M'hamdi ([email protected])