Jean-Loup Chrétien

Jean-Loup Jacques Marie Chrétien, is an engineer, retired Général de Brigade (brigadier general) of the Armée de l'Air (French air force) and a former CNES spationaut who flew on several Franco-Soviet space missions and a NASA Space Shuttle mission. Chrétien was the first Frenchman and Western European in space. Born 20 August 1938, in the town of La Rochelle, France. Married to and then divorced from Amy Kristine Jensen of New Canaan, Connecticu... more

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