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...
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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, Connecticut. Five children (one deceased), among whom one daughter named Lauren with Amy. Lauren and her mother currently live in Houston, TX. Hobbies include skiing in Winter and sailing in Summer. He also enjoys golf, wind-surfing, car-rallying and woodworking. In addition, he plays the church organ, and took an electric one with him during his first stay in Star City, Russia. His father, Jacques, was a Navy sailor, and his mother, the former Marie-Blanche Coudurier, was a housewife. Chrétien is fluent in French, English and Russian.
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