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