Léopold Eyharts
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Léopold "Leo" Eyharts (born 28 April 1957) is a French Brigadier General in the French Air Force, an
engineer Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who Invention, invent, design, build, maintain and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials. They aim to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while ...
and ESA
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. He has flown to space two times as part of a Mir expedition and an
International Space Station The International Space Station (ISS) is a large space station that was Assembly of the International Space Station, assembled and is maintained in low Earth orbit by a collaboration of five space agencies and their contractors: NASA (United ...
expedition. Eyharts was born on 28 April 1957 in Biarritz, Basque Country, France. He graduated as an
engineer Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who Invention, invent, design, build, maintain and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials. They aim to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while ...
from the French Air Force Academy of Salon-de-Provence in 1979, and graduated from the École du personnel navigant d'essais et de réception (EPNER) French test pilot school in Istres in 1988. He launched on board Space Shuttle mission STS-122 to the International Space Station on 7 February 2008, where he joined
Expedition 16 Expedition 16 was the 16th List of International Space Station Expeditions, expedition to the International Space Station (ISS). The first two crew members, Yuri Malenchenko and Peggy Whitson, launched on 10 October 2007, aboard Soyuz TMA-11, an ...
. He participated in the installation and configuration of the Columbus European laboratory module. He returned to Earth aboard mission STS-123 in March 2008.


Awards and honors

* Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur * Chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite * Médaille d'Outre-Mer * Silver National Defence Medal * Cavalier of the Order of Courage (Russia) * Cavalier of the Order of Friendship (Russia) * The medal "For merits in development of space" (12 April 2011) for his outstanding contribution to the development of international cooperation in crewed space flight


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ESA profile page


1957 births Living people People from Biarritz French-Basque people French aviators French spationauts ESA astronauts Crew members of the International Space Station Knights of the Legion of Honour Knights of the Ordre national du Mérite École de l'air alumni French Air Force generals Space Shuttle program astronauts Mir crew members Recipients of the Order of Courage (Russia) CNES personnel {{France-mil-bio-stub