Education: 1976: baccalaureate from the
Collège Militaire de Saint Cyr lEcole; 1978: he gained two
mathematics degrees at the Prytanée Militaire, La Flèche, France;
1981: graduated from Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France; 1983: graduated from
Ecole Nationale Supérieure de lAéronautique et de
lEspace, Toulouse, France; 1987: graduated as Flight Test Engineer from
Ecole du Personnel Navigant dEssais et de Réception, Istres,
France. Jean-François is an Ingénieur Général de
lArmement in the French DGA defence procurement agency.
In 1983
Jean-François Clervoy was seconded from the Délégation
Générale pour LArmement (DGA) to French space agency
CNES where he worked on autopilot systems for various
projects such as the SPOT Earth observation satellite, the STAR optical
intersatellite space link and the Vega comet probe. He was selected for the
second group of French astronauts in 1985 and started intensive Russian
language training. From 1987 to 1992 he directed the parabolic flight programme
at the Flight Test Center in Brétigny-sur-Orge, France, and provided
technical support to the European human space program at
ESAs Hermes crew office in Toulouse. From 1983
to 1987, Jean-François Clervoy also lectured on signal processing and
general mechanics at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de
lAéronautique et de lEspace, Toulouse. In 1991,
Jean-François Clervoy trained in Star City, Russia, on
Soyuz and
Mir. In 1992, he joined the
ESA
astronaut corps at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany. In August
1992 Jean-François Clervoy was detached to the
NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, USA, qualifying
as a Space Shuttle mission specialist. Between spaceflights,
Jean-François Clervoy was assigned as flight software verification lead
in the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory and as robotics display design
lead for the Space Shuttle. After his third spaceflight, he was assigned as the
International Space Station display integration lead in
NASAs Astronaut Office. From 2001 through 2008
he was assigned as Senior Advisor Astronaut for
ESAs Automated Transfer Vehicle in Les Mureaux,
France. In 2008, he was appointed member of the selection board for the new
ESA
astronaut class. Jean-François Clervoy has military and civilian
parachuting licences, military and civilian scuba-diving licences, and a
private pilots licence.
Jean-François Clervoy is a member of
the
ESA
Astronaut Corps, based at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany. As
part of his duties, Jean-François Clervoy provides support to the human
spaceflight programme, the communications department and the sustainable
development office. He is also Chairman of Novespace, a subsidiary of
Frances
CNES space agency in charge of the parabolic flight
programme that uses an A300 aircraft based in Bordeaux-Mérignac, France.
Jean-François Clervoy enjoys racquet sports, canyoning, skiing and
enjoys hobbies such as flying boomerangs, Frisbees and kites.