Bidspirit auction | Cosmonaut Clauidie Andre-Deshays (now Haignere)

Cosmonaut Clauidie Andre-Deshays (now Haignere) signed Space Shuttle Mission 51-J Atlantis OV-104 NASA FDC. In 1985, France's space centre selected only six men and one woman-Claudie Haigneré-to go to space.[3] She first served as a back-up crew member for the 1993 Mir Altair mission, in which her future husband Jean-Pierre Haigneré participated. The asteroid 135268 Haignere is named in their combined honour. In 1994, Claudie Haignere began training at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, for the Franco-Russian Cassiopeia mission and learned Russian during her time there. On 17 August 1996, she became the first French woman to go to space when she and two Russian cosmonauts, commander Valery Korzun and flight engineer Aleksandr Kaleri, launched into space aboard the Soyuz TM-24.[2] While on the mission, Haignere visited the Mir space station for 16 days, where she conducted comprehensive experiments in the fields of physiology and developmental biology, fluid physics and technology. Single Vendor collection of RAF Museum official covers, cosmonauts, Navy covers, FDCs. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99.