ASTRONAUT

Jean-Jacques Favier

1949 - 2023

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Jean-Jacques Favier (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ ʒak favje]; 13 April 1949 – 19 March 2023) was a German-born French engineer and a CNES astronaut who flew aboard the STS-78 NASA Space Shuttle mission in 1996. Favier was due to fly aboard the doomed Columbia mission in 2003 (STS-107), but later opted out of the mission. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Jacques Favier has received more than 46,605 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Jean-Jacques Favier is the 238th most popular astronaut (up from 290th in 2019), the 5,278th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,902nd in 2019) and the 6th most popular German Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Jean-Jacques Favier ranks 238 out of 556. Before him are Mikhail Tyurin, Loren Acton, Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, John Oliver Creighton, Nikolai Budarin, and Jean-Pierre Haigneré. After him are Soichi Noguchi, Akihiko Hoshide, Bjarni Tryggvason, Chris Hadfield, Aleksandr Nikolayevich Balandin, and Millie Hughes-Fulford.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Jean-Jacques Favier ranks 573. Before him are Marc Garneau, Francisco Aguilar, Témime Lahzami, Alberto Cardaccio, Steve Gaines, and Ishenbai Kadyrbekov. After him are Jonathan Kellerman, Ieremia Tabai, Wenceslao Padilla, Flora Gomes, Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis, and José Rodrigues Neto. Among people deceased in 2023, Jean-Jacques Favier ranks 521. Before him are Allan Jay, Vítězslav Mácha, Italo Galbiati, Walter Mirisch, Vahidin Musemić, and John Jakes. After him are Richard Davis, Samuel T. Durrance, Bob Knight, Nigel Lawson, Inga Swenson, and Parkash Singh Badal.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Jean-Jacques Favier ranks 5,278 out of 7,253. Before him are Johann Mühlegg (1970), Mady Rahl (1915), Michael Rensing (1984), Danna García (1978), Björn Höcke (1972), and Hartwig Gauder (1954). After him are Harry Schwarz (1924), Wolfgang Seguin (1945), Bernd Cullmann (1939), Liselott Linsenhoff (1927), Bernd Mayländer (1971), and Wilhelm Genazino (1943).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Germany

Among astronauts born in Germany, Jean-Jacques Favier ranks 6. Before him are Sigmund Jähn (1937), Ulf Merbold (1941), Thomas Reiter (1958), Hans Schlegel (1951), and Ernst Messerschmid (1945). After him are Jasmin Moghbeli (1983), Klaus-Dietrich Flade (1952), Reinhold Ewald (1956), Ulrich Walter (1954), Gerhard Thiele (1953), and Alexander Gerst (1976).

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