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Andromède mission - Claudie Haigneré back on earth

author: ESA/CNES/S.Corvaja/Novapix

reference: e-eur01-10015

Image Size 300 DPI: 11 * 16 cm

From 21 to 31 October 2001 Claudie Haigneré participated as first female European astronaut in a `taxi flight` to the International Space Station as Soyuz Flight Engineer. This "Andromède" mission had two main purposes : to exchange the Soyuz spacecraft used as a crew escape vehicle, and to carry out a scientific and technical research programme organized by the French space agency CNES during her eight day-stay onboard the International Space Station.

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2001 - ASTRONAUT - BAIKONUR - HAIGNERE CLAUDIE - HUMAN - KAZAKHSTAN - MANNED SPACEFLIGHT - POSTFLIGHT - SPACE - WOMAN -