 jean-franÃ§ois andrÃ© clervoy (born 19 november 1958) is a french engineer and a cnes and esa astronaut. he is a veteran of three nasa space shuttle missions. ==personal life==  clervoy was born 19 november 1958 in longeville-lÃ¨s-metz, france. he therefore considers himself as lorrain mosellan, but also as toulousain by adoption. he has a twin brother, patrick, a military physician. he is married to laurence. they have two children: romain and jade. clervoy enjoys racquet sports, skill games, canyoning, skiing, and flying activities such as boomerang, frisbee, kites. ==education== received his baccalaurÃ©at from collÃ¨ge militaire de saint cyr l' ecole in 1976; passed math. sup. and math. spÃ©. m' at prytanÃ©e militaire, la flÃ¨che in 1978. graduated from ecole polytechnique, paris, in 1981, he became a member of the corps of armament. he graduated from Ãcole nationale supÃ©rieure de l'aÃ©ronautique et de l'espace, toulouse, in 1983; graduated as a flight test engineer from Ãcole du personnel navigant d'essais et de rÃ©ception, istres, in 1987. he graduated from high-school in saint-cyr lycee, and then joined a class for preparation of "grandes Ã©coles" being admitted to the Ãcole polytechnique. later he joined the supaero engineering school and finally he was accepted at the epner (Ãcole du personnel navigant d'essais et de rÃ©ception) a test pilot/engineer school based in istres (south of france). there he trained as a test engineer. he is a member of association of space explorers and a distinguished member of the french aeronautics and astronautics association. ==astronaut career== clervoy was seconded from the dÃ©lÃ©gation gÃ©nÃ©rale pour l' armement (dga) to cnes (french space agency) when he was selected in the second group of french astronauts in 1985 and started an intensive russian language training. from 1987 until 1992 he directed the parabolic flight programme at the flight test centre, brÃ©tigny-sur-orge and provided technical support to the european manned space programmes within the esa hermes crew office. from 1983 to 1987, clervoy was also a le
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