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Patrick Baudry (born March 6, 1946 in Cameroon,
then a French colony), retired Lieutenant Colonel,
French Air Force, is a CNES Spationaut. In 1985,
he became the second citizen of France in space,
after Jean-Loup Chrétien, when he flew aboard the
NASA's Space Shuttle Mission STS-51-G.



==Education==

* Prytanee|Prytanee National Militaire in 1965
* École de l'Air|French Airforce Academy "École
de l'Air" in 1967


==Experience==

Lieutenant Colonel Baudry completed flight
training at Salon-de-Provence and Tours, France,
receiving his wings in 1970. Served as a fighter
pilot in Fighter Squadron 1/11 "Roussillon" on
F-100 Super Sabre|F100 and SEPECAT Jaguar|Jaguar,
and completed numerous operational missions in
several countries of Africa. He entered the
"Empire Test Pilot School" at Boscombe Down,
England, in 1978, and was awarded the Patuxent
River Trophy at the completion of the course. He
was assigned to the Flight Test Center in
Bretigny-sur-Orge, France, in 1979, where he flew
various test projects on fighter and attack-type
aircraft which included flying the different types
of Mirage (aircraft)|Mirages, SEPECAT
Jaguar|Jaguar, and F-8 Crusader|Crusader.

He has logged more than 4,000 hours flying time -
3,300 in jet aircraft - and has flown over 100
different types of aircraft - F-100, F-104, F-4,
A-8, T-33, Lightning, Harrier, Hunter, Canberra,
Jaguar, all types of Mirage (aircraft)|Mirages,
Mystère 4, Vautour, and other aircraft.

Lieutenant Colonel Baudry holds an airline
transport pilot license. He worked for some time
after his space flight at Airbus Industrie as a
test pilot, and is now retired in the Aquitaine
region.

==CNES experience==

Lieutenant Colonel Baudry became a CNES astronaut
in June 1980. For two years, he trained at CNES
and at Star City near Moscow. He was a member of
the back-up crew of the French-Soviet mission and
was trained for scientific experiments in the
fields of physiology, biology, materials
processing in space, and astronomy. Lieutenant
Colonel Baudry is a CNES expert for manned space
flight activities and participates in the analysis
of decisions and study of definition for the
future "Hermes (shuttle)|Hermes" space aircraft.

==NASA space flight experience==

Lieutenant Colonel Baudry flew as a payload
specialist on STS-51-G Discovery (June 17-24,
1985). STS-51-G was launched from Kennedy Space
Center, Florida, and returned to land at Edwards
Air Force Base, California. The international crew
aboard Discovery deployed communications
satellites for Mexico (Morelos), the Arab League
(Arabsat), and the United States (AT&T Telstar).
They deployed and later retrieved the SPARTAN
satellite, which performed 17 hours of x-ray
astronomy experiments while separated from the
Space Shuttle. In completing this flight,
Lieutenant Colonel Baudry traveled 2.5 million
miles in 112 Earth orbits, logging over 169 hours
in space.

==Personal data==

Born in Douala (Cameroon|United Republic of
Cameroon). Married. One child. Hobbies include
mechanical sports, such as
Motorcycles|motorcycling and car racing. He also
enjoys running Marathon (sport)|marathons, playing
squash (sport)|squash, skiing, Firearm|gun-firing,
windsurfing, and sky diving. Lieutenant Colonel
Baudry is also a wine connoisseur.

==Organizations==

Association of European Astronauts; correspondent
of the Air and Space Academy; and member of
several wine tasters' confreries, such as
"Chevaliers du Tastevin," "Jurade de St Emilion",
and "Confrerie du Contemps".

==Special honors==

Chevalier of the Legion of Honour; Chevalier of
the National Merit Order; French Astronautics
Medal; the Soviet Order of "Amitié des Peuples"
and the Soviet Order of Gagarine.


==External link and references==
* Source of initial text:
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