Jean-Jacques Favier, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Jean-Jacques Favier

French astronaut

Date of Birth: 13-Apr-1949

Place of Birth: Kehl, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Profession: astronaut, engineer, physicist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Jean-Jacques Favier (Born April 13, 1949) is a French engineer and a former CNES astronaut who flew aboard the STS-78 NASA Space Shuttle mission.
Favier was due to fly aboard the destroyed Columbia mission in 2003, but later signed out of the mission.
Jean-Jacques Favier has been Deputy Director for Space Technology and Deputy Director for Advanced Concepts and Strategy at CNES, Director of the Solidification Laboratory at the French Atomic Energy Commission and Research Program Director at the International Space University.