Jean claude nicollier biography

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Jean claude nicollier biography

Log In. Nemo enim ipsam voluptatem quia voluptas sit aspernaturaut odit aut fugit, sed quia. Explore my amazing outer space missions. Mission: STS Get my latest space stories and newsletters in your mail! Subscribe I agree to the Privacy Policy. Education He graduated from the University of Lausanne in with a Bachelor of Science in physics and the University of Geneva in with a Master of Science in astrophysics.

Experience Claude was a member of the first group of ESA astronauts selected in Claude Nicollier repairing Hubble. He has flown on four Space Shuttle missions. During his final spaceflight he participated in a spacewalkbecoming the first European Space Agency astronaut to do so during a Space Shuttle mission previous ESA astronauts conducted spacewalks aboard Mirsee List of spacewalks and moonwalks — Nicollier retired from ESA in April He was an expert board member of Swiss Space Systemsuntil the company's dissolution.

Nicollier was born September 2, In parallel, he became a Swiss Air Force pilot inin the Fliegerstaffel 5 on Hawker Hunter where he holds a commission as captain, and has logged 5, hours flying time, including 4, hours in jet aircraft. From the spring of to the end ofhe was head of the Astronaut Office Robotics Branch. Nicollier has spent over hours in space 42 days, 12 hours and 5 minutesincluding one space walk lasting 8 hours and 10 minutes.

He served as mission specialist on four missions with four different space shuttles. His first spaceflight was planned to be STSKwhich had been scheduled for Octoberbut was cancelled following the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. Nicollier's first spaceflight was as a mission specialist on the 8-day Space Shuttle mission aboard Atlantiscalled STSin His second spaceflight was as a mission specialist on the day mission aboard Endeavourcalled STSin It was the first mission to perform maintenance on the Hubble Space Telescopewhich had been launched three years previously.

The nature of this repair was to correct a 2 nm error in the lens, which caused significant distortion of the images taken by the telescope. It was the third servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. During this mission Nicollier participated in an 8-hour spacewalk ; it was his first, and the first of any ESA astronaut during a Space Shuttle mission.