Haigneré was a back-up crew member for the 1993 Mir Altaïr mission in which her future husband Jean-Pierre Haigneré participated. The asteroid 135268 Haigneré is named in their combined honour. Haigneré visited the Mir space station for 16 days in 1996, as part of the Russian-French Cassiopée mission. In 2001, Haigneré became the first European woman to visit the International Space Station, as part of the Andromède mission. She retired from ESA on 18 June 2002
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US-Astronaut Robert Satcher makes repairs at ISS
Foto: Imago
Dr. Robert Satcher was OrthopedicDoc and specialist for bone cancer before joining the NASA as astronaut
CAPE CANAVERAL. In a 6-hour-space-walk two US-astronauts have fixed a new antennae at ISS.
one of them is Robert Satcher (44), orthopedic doctor and specialist for bone cancer. "I have always dreamt of travelling into space who was working at the children's memorial hospital in Chicago until he joined the NASA in 2004.
