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Jean-Jacques Favier

1949 - 2023

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Jean-Jacques Favier (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 42,800 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Jean-Jacques Favier is the 290th most popular astronaut (down from 275th in 2019), the 4,919th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,285th in 2019) and the 7th most popular German Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Jean-Jacques Favier ranks 290 out of 524. Before him are Shannon Walker, Oleg Novitsky, Umberto Guidoni, Michael Coats, Karl Gordon Henize, and Oleg Kotov. After him are George Nelson, Ulrich Walter, David Wolf, Tamara E. Jernigan, Carlos I. Noriega, and Jeffrey A. Hoffman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Jean-Jacques Favier ranks 608. Before him are Viktor Kupreichik, Anna-Maria Müller, Tom Watson, Daniel DiNardo, Henryk Wieczorek, and Abhay Ashtekar. After him are Aleksandr Salnikov, Terry Zwigoff, Delwa Kassiré Koumakoye, Montxo Armendáriz, Ann Reinking, and Atanas Mihaylov. Among people deceased in 2023, Jean-Jacques Favier ranks 369. Before him are Ama Ata Aidoo, Barrett Strong, Stéphane Demol, Viktor Mamatov, Richard Moll, and David Del Tredici. After him are Ron Cephas Jones, Annie Wersching, Tim Keller, Gil de Ferran, Coco Lee, and Inga Swenson.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Jean-Jacques Favier ranks 4,919 out of 6,142. Before him are Benno Fürmann (1972), Andrea Ehrig-Mitscherlich (1960), Paul Steiner (1957), Silke Möller (1964), Harald Norpoth (1942), and Andreas Klöden (1975). After him are Peter Tschentscher (1966), Lothar Kobluhn (1943), Uschi Disl (1970), Philipp Kohlschreiber (1983), Diego Contento (1990), and Uwe Rösler (1968).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Germany

Among astronauts born in Germany, Jean-Jacques Favier ranks 7. Before him are Sigmund Jähn (1937), Ulf Merbold (1941), Hans Schlegel (1951), Thomas Reiter (1958), Ernst Messerschmid (1945), and Klaus-Dietrich Flade (1952). After him are Ulrich Walter (1954), Reinhold Ewald (1956), Gerhard Thiele (1953), and Alexander Gerst (1976).

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