Philippe Perrin
In 1992, Philippe Perrin was temporarily detached to the French Space Agency (CNES) and sent to Star City, Russia, where he trained for two months.
In July 1996, CNES announced his selection as an Astronaut and assigned him to attend NASA’s Astronaut Candidate Training in Houston, Texas.
From August 1996 Perrin reported to the Johnson Space Center. Having completed two years of training and evaluation, he was qualified for flight assignment as a mission specialist.
Perrin was initially assigned technical duties in the Astronaut Office Spacecraft Systems/Operations Branch and worked on man-machine interface issues in different programs: Shuttle upgrade, X38 and ATV.
He served as a mission specialist (MS1) on STS-111 (June 5-19, 2002) onboard Space Shuttle Endeavour. The STS-111 mission delivered a new ISS resident crew and a Canadian-built mobile base for the orbiting outpost’s robotic arm. STS-111 also brought home the Expedition Four crew from their 6 ½ month stay aboard the station. Mission duration was 13 days, 20 hours and 35 minutes.
As MS1, Perrin was in the cockpit during ascent. He focused most of his time on orbit preparing and carrying out three successful space-walks. On the first two Extravehicular activities, he helped to install the MBS and on the third, he performed a late-notice repair of the station’s robot arm by replacing one of its joints. He spent a total of about 19 hours outside the station.
During that mission, he was also arm operator and berthed the MPLM back into the Orbiter Payload bay towards the end of the mission. He was also in charge of portable computers and worked as the main board engineer (MS2) during the rendezvous phases.
In December 2002, Perrin joined the ESA European Astronaut Corps, whose homebase is the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) located in Cologne, Germany.
After completion of a familiarization period, he was assigned to provide engineering support to the ESA ATV (Automated Transfer Vehicle) project at the ATV Control Center in Toulouse.
I purchased this from a CollectSPACE member. I've rarely seen Perrin autographs on the secondary market, so I was glad for this to fill a hole in my Shuttle astronaut collection.
Philippe Perrin
In 1992, Philippe Perrin was temporarily detached to the French Space Agency (CNES) and sent to Star City, Russia, where he trained for two months.
In July 1996, CNES announced his selection as an Astronaut and assigned him to attend NASA’s Astronaut Candidate Training in Houston, Texas.
From August 1996 Perrin reported to the Johnson Space Center. Having completed two years of training and evaluation, he was qualified for flight assignment as a mission specialist.
Perrin was initially assigned technical duties in the Astronaut Office Spacecraft Systems/Operations Branch and worked on man-machine interface issues in different programs: Shuttle upgrade, X38 and ATV.
He served as a mission specialist (MS1) on STS-111 (June 5-19, 2002) onboard Space Shuttle Endeavour. The STS-111 mission delivered a new ISS resident crew and a Canadian-built mobile base for the orbiting outpost’s robotic arm. STS-111 also brought home the Expedition Four crew from their 6 ½ month stay aboard the station. Mission duration was 13 days, 20 hours and 35 minutes.
As MS1, Perrin was in the cockpit during ascent. He focused most of his time on orbit preparing and carrying out three successful space-walks. On the first two Extravehicular activities, he helped to install the MBS and on the third, he performed a late-notice repair of the station’s robot arm by replacing one of its joints. He spent a total of about 19 hours outside the station.
During that mission, he was also arm operator and berthed the MPLM back into the Orbiter Payload bay towards the end of the mission. He was also in charge of portable computers and worked as the main board engineer (MS2) during the rendezvous phases.
In December 2002, Perrin joined the ESA European Astronaut Corps, whose homebase is the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) located in Cologne, Germany.
After completion of a familiarization period, he was assigned to provide engineering support to the ESA ATV (Automated Transfer Vehicle) project at the ATV Control Center in Toulouse.
I purchased this from a CollectSPACE member. I've rarely seen Perrin autographs on the secondary market, so I was glad for this to fill a hole in my Shuttle astronaut collection.