List of French astronauts
The following is a list of French astronauts, also referred to as spationauts, who have traveled into space, sorted by date of first flight.
As of 2024, ten French nationals have been in space. The first French national in space was Jean-Loup Chrétien in 1982. The first female spationaut was Claudie Haigneré, née André-Deshays, who traveled to Mir in 1996.
Jean-Loup Chrétien and Jean-François Clervoy are the only French nationals to have been in space three times. Jean-Pierre Haigneré and Thomas Pesquet are the only French nationals to have made long-term spaceflights.
List
| Image | Name | Mission | Mission start | Mission duration | Space station | Mission objectives | Ref. |
| Jean-Loup Chrétien | Soyuz T-6 | 7 days, 21 hours, 50 minutes | Salyut 7 | ||||
| Jean-Loup Chrétien | Soyuz TM-7 / Soyuz TM-6 | 24 days, 17 hours, 52 minutes | Mir | Mir Aragatz mission | |||
| Jean-Loup Chrétien | STS-86 | 10 days, 19 hours, 22 minutes | Mir | Seventh Shuttle-Mir Docking | |||
| Patrick Baudry | STS-51-G | 7 days, 1 hour, 38 minutes | Deployed three communications satellites, all attached to Payload Assist Module-D | ||||
| Michel Tognini | Soyuz TM-15 / Soyuz TM-14 | 14 days | Mir | ||||
| Michel Tognini | STS-93 | 4 days, 22 hours, 49 minutes | Delivered the Chandra X-ray Observatory | ||||
| Jean-Pierre Haigneré | Soyuz TM-17 / Soyuz TM-16 | 21 days | Mir | ||||
| Jean-Pierre Haigneré | Soyuz TM-29 | 188 days, 20 hours, 16 minutes | Mir | ||||
| Jean-François Clervoy | STS-66 | 10 days, 22 hours, 34 minutes | Conducted experiments on the Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science-3 and the Cryogenic Infrared Spectrometers and Telescopes for the Atmosphere-Shuttle Pallet Satellite payloads | ||||
| Jean-François Clervoy | STS-84 | 9 days, 4 hours, 19 minutes | Mir | Sixth Shuttle-Mir Docking | |||
| Jean-François Clervoy | STS-103 | 7 days, 23 hours, 11 minutes | Third Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission | ||||
| Jean-Jacques Favier | STS-78 | 16 days, 21 hours, 48 minutes | Conducted Life and Microgravity Spacelab experiments | ||||
| 80px | Claudie Haigneré | Soyuz TM-24 / Soyuz TM-23 | 16 days | Mir | |||
| 80px | Claudie Haigneré | Soyuz TM-33 / Soyuz TM-32 | 10 days | ISS | |||
| Léopold Eyharts | Soyuz TM-27 / Soyuz TM-26 | 21 days | Mir | ||||
| Léopold Eyharts | STS-122 / STS-123 | 48 days | ISS | Delivered the Japanese Kibo Logistics Module and the Canadian Dextre robotics system | |||
| Philippe Perrin | STS-111 | 13 days, 20 hours, 35 minutes | ISS | ||||
| Thomas Pesquet | Soyuz MS-03 | 194 days | ISS | ||||
| Thomas Pesquet | SpaceX Crew-2 | 199 days, 17 hours and 43 minutes | ISS |