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ESA astronaut L‚opold Eyharts assigned to European Columbus laboratory mission
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ESA PR 07-2007. ESA astronaut L‚opold Eyharts of France has today been
assigned to fly onboard the International Space Station for the delivery and
commissioning of the European Columbus laboratory currently planned for this
autumn.
He will be a member of the Expedition 16 crew to the ISS. He is set to fly
there on Space Shuttle (Discovery) mission STS-122 and will return home with
the (Endeavour) STS-123 crew some two months later. En route to the ISS,
Eyharts will be accompanied by five NASA crewmates and ESA astronaut Hans
Schlegel of Germany, who was assigned to STS-122 last July.
While Eyharts will remain onboard the Station to oversee activation and check
-out of the Columbus laboratory, Schegel will take a Shuttle return trip home
14 days after launch.
L‚opold Eyharts has been a member of the European Astronaut Corps since 1998
and carried out his first-ever space mission to the Russian space station Mir
from 29 January to 19 February 1998 as a French space agency (CNES) astronaut.
On this forthcoming mission, Eyharts will play a key part in the installation,
activation and commissioning of ESA's Columbus laboratory. Columbus is the
cornerstone of Europe's contribution to the International Space Station and is
the first-ever European laboratory devoted to long-term research in space.
Eyharts will become the first European astronaut to test and operate in-orbit
the systems of the Columbus module as well as the European science experiments
carried onboard. During his ISS mission, he will act as flight engineer and
will also support robotics activities.
Columbus will be transported to the Station in the Shuttle's cargo bay
together with five internal rack facilities (Biolab, the Fluid Science
Laboratory, the European Physiology Module facility, the European Drawer Rack
and the European Transport Carrier). Two external experiment facilities for
Columbus (EuTEF and SOLAR) will also be travelling in the cargo bay and will
be attached onto the outside of the laboratory module during the STS-122
mission.
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Following the launch from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral in
Florida, the Shuttle will take two days to rendezvous and dock with the ISS.
The Columbus laboratory will then be unberthed from the Shuttle's cargo bay
using Canada's Space Station robotic arm (Canadarm 2) and mated to the
starboard-side docking port of Node 2, the European-built ISS connecting
module. Once attached, Columbus will be powered up and its payload rack
facilities will be moved from their launch configuration to their operational
locations in the module.
Four spacewalks (EVA, extra-vehicular activities) are scheduled during this
mission. The first will help install and power-up Columbus. The second EVA
will serve to install the Columbus external payloads. The third and fourth
will be devoted to various ISS maintenance tasks. Final laboratory
commissioning and activation/check-out of the science experiment racks will
take place during the weeks that follow and will be carried out by L‚opold
Eyharts as a member of the resident ISS crew.
Once the European laboratory is attached, the Columbus Control Centre in
Oberpfaffenhofen/Germany, based on the premises of the DLR's space operations
centre, will be in charge of control/operations. The Centre will also
coordinate European experiment operations.
L‚opold Eyharts - Biographical summary
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Personal data
Born 28 April 1957, in Biarritz/France. Married, has one child. Hobbies
include jogging, mountain biking, tennis, reading and computers.
Education
Graduated in aeronautical engineering at the French Air Force Academy of
Salon-de-Provence in 1979. Qualified as a fighter pilot in Tours in 1980 and
graduated from France's test pilot school (EPNER) in Istres in 1988.
Special honours
Decorated officer of the L‚gion d'Honneur, Chevalier de l'Ordre National du
M‚rite, awarded M‚daille d'Outre-Mer, D‚fense Nationale (silver medal) and
Russian medals for friendship and courage.
Experience
Having graduated in aeronautical engineering and qualified as a fighter pilot,
was assigned in 1980 to an operational Jaguar A squadron in Istres Air Force
Base (France). In 1985 was appointed flight commander at Saint-Dizier Air
Force base.
Having qualified as a test pilot in 1988, was assigned to the Br‚tigny-sur
-Orge flight test centre near Paris, becoming chief test pilot in 1990.
L‚opold Eyharts has logged 3800 hours' flying time on over 50 types of
aircraft and 21 parachute jumps including one ejection. He holds a commission
as Colonel in the French Air Force.
In 1990 he was selected to be an astronaut by the French national space agency
(CNES) and was assigned to support the Hermes spaceplane programme managed by
the Hermes Crew Office in Toulouse. He also became one of the test pilots and
engineers in charge of the CNES parabolic flight programme (using Caravelle
aircraft) and also carried out Airbus A300 zero-g qualification flights.
L‚opold Eyharts underwent two short-duration training sessions at the Yuri
Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre near Moscow in 1991 and 1993. He took part
in an evaluation of Russian Buran space shuttle training in Moscow, where he
flew in the Tupulev 154 Buran in-flight simulator.
In 1992 he was a candidate for European Space Agency astronaut selection.
In July 1994 he was assigned as back-up crew member for the Franco/Russian
Cassiop‚e mission, which took place in August 1996.
In December 1996 he was selected as cosmonaut for the CNES follow-on space
science mission Pegase, which took place from 29 January to 19 February 1998.
In August 1998 he joined ESA's European Astronaut Corps, whose home base is
the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) located in Cologne/Germany. He was
assigned to train at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston/Texas and joined
the 1998 Mission Specialist Class.
L‚opold Eyharts received technical assignments within NASA's Astronaut Office
at JSC/Houston. He is currently working in the ISS Operations Branch as a
section chief for ISS systems, software and onboard information technology.
Spaceflight experience
Mission to the Russian space station Mir (29 January to 19 February 1998).
During this Franco/Russian mission Pegase, he performed various French
experiments in the area of medical research, neuroscience, biology, fluid
physics and technology.
Source: ESA
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