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Biography
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.
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