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On this day: 17 August 1996, as part of the Russian-French Cassiopée mission, CN…

On this day: 17 August 1996, as part of the Russian-French Cassiopée mission, CNES astronaut ClAudie André-Deshays (now Haigneré) became the first French woman in space on Soyuz TM-24.


Claudie Haigneré (formerly Claudie André-Deshays), with the French space agency CNES in 1996