Gérard LECLERC receives Claudie HAIGNERE, Minister for Research and New Technologies, to discuss the stakes of maintaining a European launcher, synonymous with mastery of access to information and development of satellites to develop technological applications, rumors of the signing of a partnership with the Russians for the launch of the Soyuz rocket from the base of Kourou in Guyana.
Interview on a plateau with the CNES spaceman, Claudie Andre Deshays, who is going to participate in a space flight with the Russians, she recalls her memories of a little girl when the Americans aluni on July 20, 1969, as well as her two-week mission to the Mir orbital station, She will train for 18 months in the Star City near Moscow.
On the eve of the departure of the Franco-Russian mission Antares, report in the space center of Baikonur from where the carrier rocket of the Soyuz spacecraft TM15 is to be launched, with on board the French spaceman Michel TOGNINI. The French scientific team is attending the final preparations on site, including Alain Labarthe, Head of Mission, who talks about stress before take-off, and Claudie André Deshays, cosmonaut candidate, who claims to be ready to go into space on a future mission.
Report. On the occasion of the release of the film "Proxima" directed by Alice WINOCOUR which follows the training of an astronaut, mother of a little girl, who is about to go on a mission on Mars, meeting between Claudie HAIGNERE, First European spaceman and actress Eva GREEN and exchanges on the conditions of the physical training of women to become spationautre and in particular the problem of the combination for extra-vehicular outings in space.
Report. In Baikonur, the Soyuz spacecraft took off for the international space station, with French cosmonaut Claudie Haigneré on board. The French, engineer on board, will take part in this 10-day mission poetically named Andromeda with two Russian cosmonauts. She leaves her family, her husband Jean Pierre Haigneré and her daughter, Clara. This is the second time that Claudie Haigneré, who speaks Russian fluently participates in a space flight. Alternating commentary on images, an interview with the cosmonaut’s mother) and a set in a situation.
On-stage interview with two of the seven French cosmonauts selected for future American or Soviet flights, while waiting for the European shuttle: Dr Claudie DESHAYS, rheumatologist at the COCHIN hospital and Inra veterinarian Michel Viso.
Interview at the Star City in Moscow with Claudie André Deshays just after his first orbital flight aboard the Mir station. It evokes the colors of space.
French cosmonaut Claudie ANDRE DESHAYS is back on Earth in the steppe of Kazakhstan aboard the Soyuz TM23 capsule after ten days spent on the Russian station MIR. She landed in Baikonur with two Russian cosmonauts, Yuri ONOUFRIENKO and Yuri OUSATCHEV, who had been staying in the station for 195 days. She is helped, surrounded, kissed, she walks but we help her to sit on a chaise longue but is in good physical condition compared to the cosmonaut Yuri OUSATCHEV weaker, he is carried and lying on a chair, he cannot walk, his bones would break. Declaration of Claudie André Deshays before his departure for the city of Stars in Moscow for medical examinations: "Yes I would like to start again, it was high".
Gérard LECLERC receives Claudie HAIGNERE, Minister for Research and New Technologies, to discuss the challenges of French and European space policy, It discusses the space programme and the driving role played by the CNES in ensuring France’s place in European space programmes and is invited to react to the researchers' strike against the government’s budget cuts.
Report filmed at the Cité des Etoiles at the BAIKONOUR space center in Russia, on the preparations of the French cosmonauts for their next participation in the "ALTAIR" mission that will start on July 1 aboard SOYUZ. Discovery of the physical training of Claudie ANDRE DESHAYS, understudy of Jean Pierre HAIGNERE, who will in principle be the first French cosmonaut to fly in space in 1996, on a rotating chair to get used to centrifugal force, doing strength training. Inside the space cabin of the Soyuz spacecraft, Jean Pierre Haignere of the CNES is asked by Patrick Hesters about the cost of the expedition; Claudie André Deshays evokes the good acceptance of women in the space of astronauts from the moment they show that they have the skills, motivation and professionalism. She also feels a gallantry and thoughtfulness that is found among the French but also among the Russians. Interview with Vassili TSIBLIEV, Russian cosmonaut, who replies with a smile when Patrick HESTERS asks him if he would have preferred that a woman be already scheduled for the next mission;
Report. For the next Franco-Russian mission in space, six cosmonauts have been trained in Toulouse this week but there will be only three to leave. Interview with Claudie André Deshays, additional space engineer on the specificity of the female condition in the space "Very masculine environment but identical preparation". as well as on the French scientific research fields: "Our major fields of research is biomedical". then interview with the French cosmonaut Jean Pierre Haigneré on the specificities of training: "Getting in better physical and psychological condition to obtain good results
Report. Interview with French astronaut Claudie HAIGNERE before her departure aboard the Soyuz spacecraft for the International Space Station (ISS). She evokes her family life and her little daughter Carla who accompanies her during the training as well as her husband the spaceman Jean Pierre Haigneré.
Report. Claudie Haigneré, Minister of Research and Innovation, came to Montbéliard to inaugurate the new multimedia hub Numérica, a place of exchange between new technologies and companies. The communities have invested €4 million in this project. At a time when research funding is being cut from all quarters, the Minister welcomes the efforts made around new technologies and took the opportunity to test an experimental car model. Commentary on factual images alternating with the interview of Claudie Haigneré and the mayor of Montbéliard Louis Sauvet.
In an interview with Minister Claudie Haigneré on the first stage of the European choice for the installation of the future ITER experimental fusion reactor at Cadarache, she discusses the reasons for this choice as well as the arguments for winning the decision against Japan.
Claudie ANDRE DESHAYS will be the first French spationalist to make a scientific flight aboard the MIR station. She continues her training at the Star City near Moscow. Comments on pictures of the Cité des Etoiles in Moscow, Claudie André Deshays on his bike, cosmonauts at training, from inside the MIR station. Claudie ANDRE DESHAYS presents her spacesuit and explains how to make her toilet with wet towels.