Patrick Baudry

Date of birth : 03/06/1946

City of birth : Douala, Cameroon

A military test-pilot, he was selected as a French astronaut in 1980. In June 1985, he became the second Frenchman in space, by flying aboard Space Shuttle Discovery on the STS-51G mission. He retired to work on the Hermes spaceplane project and then as a test pilot for Airbus Industrie, while still writing numerous books about manned spaceflight.