Claude Nicollier
Claude Nicollier
Claude Nicollieris the first astronaut from Switzerland, and has flown on four Space Shuttle missions. His first spaceflightwas in 1992, and his final spaceflightwas in 1999. He took part in two servicing missions to the Hubble Space Telescope. During his final spaceflight he participated in a spacewalk, becoming the first European Space Agency astronaut to do so during a Space Shuttle mission. In 2000 he was assigned to the Astronaut Office Extravehicular Activity Branch, while maintaining a position as Lead...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAstronaut
Date of Birth2 September 1944
CityVevey, Switzerland
CountryUnited States of America
My first dream as a child was to become a pilot. My second dream was to become an astronomer, and I pursued in parallel efforts and studies in these two areas.
We developed already, before the first servicing mission, this has been further developed on the second servicing mission and we refined it this time, all the terminology.