Alain Dupas (11 October 1945 – 12 June 2022) was a French astronomer and astrophysicist.

Biography

Dupas earned a doctorate from

Paris-Sud University Paris-Sud University (French: ''Université Paris-Sud''), also known as University of Paris — XI (or as Université d'Orsay before 1971), was a French research university distributed among several campuses in the southern suburbs of Paris, in ...

in 1997 and became a specialist in aerospace policies, technologies and programs. He directed studies at CNES in the field of research on star systems for more than 20 years. He was an associate researcher at the

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Space Policy Institute and was an aerospace advisor to the

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. In 2005, he co-founded the Astronaute Club Européen alongside Jean-Pierre Haigneré and Laurent Gathier. Alain Dupas died in Meudon on 12 June 2022 at the age of 76.

Publications

*''Les vaisseaux cosmiques'' (1968) *''La lutte pour l'espace'' (1977) *''Ariane et la navette spatiale'' (1981) *''Aux sources de l'énergie'' (1984) *''L'homme et l'espace'' (1984) *''La saga de l'espace'' (1986) *''Modernissimots : le dictionnaire du temps présent'' (1987) *''L'âge des satellites'' (1997) *''Une autre histoire de l'espace'' (1999) *''Destination Mars'' (2002) *''La nouvelle conquête spatiale'' (2010) *''Demain, nous vivrons tous dans l'espace'' (2011) *''L'appel du cosmos'' (2011)

References

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