Philippe Perrin
- STS- 111 (2002)
Philippe Perrin ( born January 6, 1963 in Meknes, Morocco ) is a French former astronaut.
Life
Career as a pilot
Perrin studied from 1982 to 1985 at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. This was interrupted by his military service in the French Navy, which led him six months in the Indian Ocean. After his graduation he went to the French Air Force. His training as a fighter pilot he was in 1986 as valedictorian. He was stationed in Strasbourg, but briefly served in Africa and Saudi Arabia.
In 1992, he was seconded to the CNES. As of November 1992, he coached two months at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia and received an insight into the technology of the Soyuz -TM spacecraft, the Mir space station, as well as spacewalks.
He was educated at the test pilot school Ecole du Personnel Navigant d' Essais et de Reception ( EPNER ) in Istres as a test pilot in 1993. After that, he was first transferred to the test center in Brétigny -sur -Orge in 1993 to Dijon. In 1995 he went back to Brétigny and became deputy chief test pilot for the Mirage 2000-5.
When NASA
In July 1996 he was presented by CNES as Astronaut Candidate to the public and sent to training at NASA. Together with the NASA group 16 he was trained from August 1996 at Johnson Space Center in Houston mission specialist. After graduating in August 1998, he worked on the development of the space shuttle, the X- 38 and the Automated Transfer Vehicle ( ATV).
In June 2002, Perrin participated as a mission specialist on two-week space flight STS -111 Space Shuttle Endeavour part of. It creates a new crew, the Canadian Mobile Base System and the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module ( MPLM ) Leonardo to the International Space Station (ISS ) has been implicated. Perrin and his colleague Chang- Diaz mounted at three spacewalks ( EVAs ), the Mobile Base System and the Canadian robotic arm, Canadarm2 repaired. Perrin was so after Jean -Loup Chretien, the second French astronaut who took a spacewalk, and the first who took this from a space shuttle. At the end of the mission Perrin operated the robotic arm of the shuttle to bring the MPLM back into the shuttle.
ESA and Airbus
After his space flight Perrin was in December 2002, the European Astronaut Corps (EAC ) of the ESA incorporated, where he worked on the development of the ATV in Toulouse. On May 1, 2004, he left the ESA and became a test pilot at Airbus. He had the French commercial pilot license since 1995, the U.S. since 1999. Since then he has worked as a test pilot for Airbus. He was captain of the first flight of freighter version of the Airbus A330 -200, which took place on November 5, 2009.
Awards (selection)
- Officer of the Legion of Honour (he was already Knight of the Legion of Honour, he was recognized for his achievements as a fighter pilot, after his space flight officer )
- French Overseas Medal ( Gulf War, 1991)
- Two medals of national defense
Private
Perrin is married and has three children.