status birth_place nationality missions space_time birth_date selection rank insignia image article_title name type occupation
retired la rochelle , france french soyuz soyuz tm-6 , sts-86 t-6 , soyuz tm-7 / mir aragatz / 43d 11h 19min 20 august 1938 1980 brigadier general , french air force 30px 30px 30px chretien2.jpg jean-loup chrétien
 jean-loup chrétien cnes spationaut fighter pilot
jean-loup chrétien

jean-loup jacques marie chrétien -lrb- born 20 august 1938 -rrb- is a french retired `` général de brigade '' -lrb- brigadier general -rrb- in the `` armée de l'air '' -lrb- french air force -rrb- , and a former cnes spationaut .
he flew on two franco-soviet space missions and a nasa space shuttle mission .
chrétien was the first frenchman and the first western european in space .
