Jean-Jacques Favier

Jean-Jacques Favier (Born April 13, 1949) is a French engineer and a former CNES spationaut. Born in Kehl, Germany, he married Michèle Jean. They have four children. He enjoys downhill skiing, tennis, wind-surfing, and archeology. Favier was the Advisor to the Director of the Material Science Research Center (CEREM) at the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) and was detached to CNES. He proposed the MEPHISTO program, a collaborative project bet... more

Jean-Jacques Favier (Born April 13, 1949) is a French engineer and a former CNES spationaut. Born in Kehl, Germany, he married Michèle Jean. They have four children. He enjoys downhill skiing, tennis, wind-surfing, and archeology. Favier was the Advisor to the Director of the Material Science Research Center (CEREM) at the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) and was detached to CNES. He proposed the MEPHISTO program, a collaborative project between the French Space Agency and NASA, and has developed many other scientific projects in collaboration with the United States since 1985. He was the principal investigator for a MEPHISTO materials processing experiment, which made its debut on the United States Microgravity Payload in 1992 and 1994. He became a CNES payload specialist in 1985. He has been principal investigator of more than ten space experiments in collaboration with ESA, NASA, and the Russian Space Agency. Favier was assigned as an alternate payload specialist on STS-65/IML... less