The following is a list of French astronauts, also referred to as spationauts, who have traveled into space, sorted by date of first flight.
As of 2024, ten French nationals have been in space. The first French national in space was Jean-Loup Chrétien in 1982. The first female spationaut was Claudie Haigneré, née André-Deshays, who traveled to Mir in 1996.
Jean-Loup Chrétien and Jean-François Clervoy are the only French nationals to have been in space three times. Jean-Pierre Haigneré and Thomas Pesquet are the only French nationals to have made long-term spaceflights.
Image | Name | Mission | Mission start | Mission duration | Space station | Mission objectives | Ref. | |
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data-sort-value=Chrétien rowspan=3 | Jean-Loup Chrétien | 7 days, 21 hours, 50 minutes | Salyut 7 | [1] | ||||
Soyuz TM-7 / Soyuz TM-6 | 24 days, 17 hours, 52 minutes | Mir | Mir Aragatz mission | [2] | ||||
STS-86 | 10 days, 19 hours, 22 minutes | Mir | Seventh Shuttle-Mir Docking | [3] | ||||
data-sort-value=Baudry | Patrick Baudry | STS-51-G | 7 days, 1 hour, 38 minutes | Deployed three communications satellites, all attached to Payload Assist Module-D (PAM-D) | [4] | |||
data-sort-value=Tognini rowspan=2 | Michel Tognini | Soyuz TM-15 / Soyuz TM-14 | 14 days | Mir | [5] | |||
STS-93 | 4 days, 22 hours, 49 minutes | Delivered the Chandra X-ray Observatory | [6] | |||||
data-sort-value=Haigneré rowspan=2 | Jean-Pierre Haigneré | Soyuz TM-17 / Soyuz TM-16 | 21 days | Mir | [7] | |||
Soyuz TM-29 | 188 days, 20 hours, 16 minutes | Mir | [8] | |||||
data-sort-value=Clervoy rowspan=3 | Jean-François Clervoy | STS-66 | 10 days, 22 hours, 34 minutes | Conducted experiments on the Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science-3 (ATLAS-3) and the Cryogenic Infrared Spectrometers and Telescopes for the Atmosphere-Shuttle Pallet Satellite (CRISTA-SPAS) payloads | [9] | |||
STS-84 | 9 days, 4 hours, 19 minutes | Mir | Sixth Shuttle-Mir Docking | [10] | ||||
STS-103 | 7 days, 23 hours, 11 minutes | Third Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission | [11] | |||||
data-sort-value=Favier | Jean-Jacques Favier | STS-78 | 16 days, 21 hours, 48 minutes | Conducted Life and Microgravity Spacelab (LMS) experiments | [12] | |||
data-sort-value=Haigneré rowspan=2 | Claudie Haigneré | Soyuz TM-24 / Soyuz TM-23 | 16 days | Mir | [13] | |||
Soyuz TM-33 / Soyuz TM-32 | 10 days | ISS | [14] | |||||
data-sort-value=Eyharts rowspan=2 | Léopold Eyharts | Soyuz TM-27 / Soyuz TM-26 | 21 days | Mir | [15] | |||
STS-122 / STS-123 | 48 days | ISS | Delivered the Japanese Kibo Logistics Module and the Canadian Dextre robotics system | [16] [17] | ||||
data-sort-value=Perrin | Philippe Perrin | STS-111 | 13 days, 20 hours, 35 minutes | ISS | [18] | |||
data-sort-value=Pesquet rowspan=2 | Thomas Pesquet | Soyuz MS-03 | 194 days | ISS | [19] | |||
SpaceX Crew-2 | 199 days, 17 hours and 43 minutes | ISS | [20] [21] | |||||