Patrick Pierre Roger Baudry (born March 6, 1946 in
Cameroon
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) is a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the
French Air Force and a former
CNES
The (CNES; French: ''Centre national d'études spatiales'') is the French government space agency (administratively, a "public administration with industrial and commercial purpose"). Its headquarters are located in central Paris and it is und ...
astronaut. In 1985, he became the second French citizen in space, after
Jean-Loup Chrétien, when he flew aboard
NASA
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's
Space Shuttle
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mission
STS-51-G
STS-51-G was the 18th flight of NASA's Space Shuttle program, and the fifth flight of Space Shuttle ''Discovery''. The seven-day mission launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on June 17, 1985, and landed at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif ...
.
Personal
Baudry was born in
Douala
Douala is the largest city in Cameroon and its economic capital. It is also the capital of Cameroon's Littoral Region. Home to Central Africa's largest port and its major international airport, Douala International Airport (DLA), it is the com ...
(
French Cameroon
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History Beginnings
The area of present-day Cameroon came under German ...
) and is married with three children from another union. His hobbies include mechanical sports, such as
motorcycling and
car racing
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Auto racing has existed since the invention of the automobile. Races of various sorts were organise ...
. He also enjoys running
marathons
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, playing
squash
Squash may refer to:
Sports
* Squash (sport), the high-speed racquet sport also known as squash racquets
* Squash (professional wrestling), an extremely one-sided match in professional wrestling
* Squash tennis, a game similar to squash but pla ...
,
skiing
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,
shooting
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,
windsurfing
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, and
sky diving
Parachuting, including also skydiving, is a method of transiting from a high point in the atmosphere to the surface of Earth with the aid of gravity, involving the control of speed during the descent using a parachute or parachutes.
For ...
. Baudry is also a wine connaisseur. His parents were part of the French resistance during the second world war and his family was rewarded the Resistance Medal
[ Resistance Medal] for their courage and effort during the war.
Education
*
Prytanée National Militaire, 1967
*
French Airforce Academy "École de l'Air", 1969
Experience
Baudry completed flight training at
Salon-de-Provence and
Tours
Tours ( , ) is one of the largest cities in the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France. It is the prefecture of the department of Indre-et-Loire. The commune of Tours had 136,463 inhabitants as of 2018 while the population of the whole metro ...
, France, receiving his wings in 1970. Served as a fighter pilot in Fighter Squadron 1/11 "Roussillon" on
F100 and
Jaguar, and completed numerous operational missions in several countries of
Africa
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. He entered the ''
Empire Test Pilots' School
The Empire Test Pilots' School (ETPS) is a British training school for test pilots and flight test engineers of fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft at MoD Boscombe Down in Wiltshire, England. It was established in 1943, the first of its type ...
'' at
Boscombe Down
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, England, in 1978, and was awarded the
Patuxent Trophy at the completion of the course. He was assigned to the Flight Test Center in
Brétigny-sur-Orge, France, in 1979, where he flew various test projects on fighter and attack-type aircraft which included flying the different types of
Mirages,
Jaguar, and
Crusader.
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-104
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,
F-4, A-8,
T-33,
Lightning
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,
Harrier,
Hunter,
Canberra,
Jaguar, all types of
Mirages,
Mystère 4,
Vautour, and other aircraft.
Baudry holds an airline transport pilot license. He worked for some time after his space flight for
Airbus
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as a test pilot, and is now retired in the
Aquitaine
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region.
CNES experience
Baudry became a
CNES
The (CNES; French: ''Centre national d'études spatiales'') is the French government space agency (administratively, a "public administration with industrial and commercial purpose"). Its headquarters are located in central Paris and it is und ...
astronaut candidate in June 1980. For two years, he trained at CNES and at
Star City near
Moscow
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. He was a member of the back-up crew for the French-Soviet
Soyuz T-6 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
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" space aircraft.
Spaceflight experience
Baudry flew as a
payload specialist on
STS-51-G
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Discovery (June 17–24, 1985).
STS-51-G
STS-51-G was the 18th flight of NASA's Space Shuttle program, and the fifth flight of Space Shuttle ''Discovery''. The seven-day mission launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on June 17, 1985, and landed at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif ...
was launched from
Kennedy Space Center
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,
Florida
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, and returned to land at
Edwards Air Force Base,
California
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. 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
The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon B ...
;
Chevalier of the National Merit Order; French Astronautics Medal; the Soviet
Order of Friendship of Peoples and the
Soviet Order of Gagarine.
References
NASA Biography for Patrick Baudry
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1946 births
Living people
French spationauts
Recipients of the Aeronautical Medal
École de l'air alumni
UNESCO Goodwill Ambassadors
Space Shuttle program astronauts
People from Douala