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Baudry, Patrick Pierre Roger

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Baudry Credit: www.spacefacts.de

Status: Inactive; Active 1980-1985. Born: 1946-03-06. Spaceflights: 1 . Total time in space: 7.07 days. Birth Place: Douala.

Official NASA Biography as of June 2016:Patrick Baudry (Lieutenant Colonel, French Air Force)
CNES Astronaut

PERSONAL DATA: Born March 6, 1946 in Douala (United Republic of Cameroon). Married. One child. Hobbies include mechanical sports, such as motorcycling and car racing. He also enjoys running marathons, playing squash, skiing, gun-firing, wind surfing, and sky-diving. Lieutenant Colonel Baudry is also a wine connoisseur.

EDUCATION: Master of Science in aeronautical engineering from French Air Force Academy “Ecole de L'Air.”

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 Peiples” and the Soviet Order of Gagarine.

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 F100 and Jaguar, and completed numerous operational missions in several countries of Africa. He entered the “Empire Test Pilot School” at Boscomb Down, Great Britain, 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 Mirages, Jaguar, and 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 – F100, F104, F4, A8, T33, Lightning, Harrier, Hunter, Canberra, Jaguar, all types of Mirages, Mystere 4, Vautour, and other aircraft.

Lieutenant Colonel Baudry holds an airline transport pilot license.

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” space aircraft.

NASA SPACE FLIGHT EXPERIENCE: Lieutenant Colonel Baudry flew as a payload specialist on STS-51G Discovery (June 17-24, 1985). STS-51G 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.

JULY 1985

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STS-51-G Payload specialists Baudry and Al-Saud conduct Postural experiment Credit: NASA

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• Birth of Patrick Pierre Roger Baudry - . Nation: Cameroon, France. Related Persons: Baudry. French pilot cosmonaut 1980-1985. Transferred to NASA Payload Specialist. Flight on STS-18, 1985. French Air Force Transferred to NASA as a Payload Specialist. 1 spaceflight, 7.1 days in space. Flew to orbit on STS-51G (1985)..

• International Cosmonaut Training Group selected. - . Nation: France. Related Persons: Baudry. French astronaut trained for a flight to the Salyut space station..

• Soyuz T-6 - . Call Sign: Pamir (Pamirs ). Crew: Chretien, Dzhanibekov, Ivanchenkov. Backup Crew: Baudry, Kizim, Solovyov, Vladimir. Payload: Soyuz T s/n 9L. Mass: 6,850 kg (15,100 lb). Nation: Russia. Agency: MOM. Program: Salyut 7. Class: Manned. Type: Manned spacecraft. Flight: Soyuz T-5, Soyuz T-6. Spacecraft Bus: Soyuz. Spacecraft: Soyuz T. Duration: 7.91 days. Decay Date: 1982-07-02 . USAF Sat Cat: 13292 . COSPAR: 1982-063A. Apogee: 233 km (144 mi). Perigee: 189 km (117 mi). Inclination: 51.70 deg. Period: 88.70 min.

  Manned three crew. Docked with Salyut 7. Transported to the Salyut-7 orbital station the Soviet-French international crew, comprising V A Dzhanibekov (USSR), A S Ivanchenkov (USSR) and Jean-Loup Chretien (France) to conduct scientific research and experiments.

• STS-51-E (cancelled) - . Crew: Baudry, Bobko, Garn, Griggs, Hoffman, Seddon, Williams, Donald. Payload: TDRS/IUS. Nation: USA. Related Persons: Baudry, Bobko, Garn, Griggs, Hoffman, Seddon, Williams, Donald. Program: STS. Flight: STS-51-E. Spacecraft Bus: Shuttle. Spacecraft: Challenger. Planned TDRS/IUS deployment shuttle mission. Cancelled due to IUS failure..

• STS-51-G - . Call Sign: Discovery. Crew: Al-Saud, Baudry, Brandenstein, Creighton, Fabian, Lucid, Nagel. Payload: Discovery F05 / Morelos 1[PAM-D] / Telstar 303. Mass: 20,174 kg (44,476 lb). Nation: USA. Related Persons: Al-Saud, Baudry, Brandenstein, Creighton, Fabian, Lucid, Nagel. Agency: NASA Houston. Program: STS. Class: Manned. Type: Manned spaceplane. Flight: STS-51-G. Spacecraft Bus: Shuttle. Spacecraft: Discovery. Duration: 7.07 days. Decay Date: 1985-06-24 . USAF Sat Cat: 15823 . COSPAR: 1985-048A. Apogee: 369 km (229 mi). Perigee: 358 km (222 mi). Inclination: 28.50 deg. Period: 91.80 min.

  Deployed and retrieved Spartan 1; launched Morelos 1, Arabsat 1B, Telstar 3D.Payloads: Shuttle Pointed Autono-mous Research Tool for Astronomy (SPARTAN)-1; Automated Directional Solidification Furnace (ADSF); High Precision Tracking Experiment (HPTE); Orbiter Experiments (OEX); French Echocardiograph Experiment (FEE) and French Pocket Experiment (FPE).

• Landing of STS-51-G - . Return Crew: Al-Saud, Baudry, Brandenstein, Creighton, Fabian, Lucid, Nagel. Nation: USA. Related Persons: Al-Saud, Baudry, Brandenstein, Creighton, Fabian, Lucid, Nagel. Program: STS. Flight: STS-51-G. STS-51-G landed at 13:10 GMT. .