First Swiss austronaut Claudie Nicollier gives a talk on his experience at the IAC

Claudie Nicollier, the first Swiss austronaut / ESA
Claudie Nicollier, the first Swiss austronaut / ESA
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The headquarters of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) will host a talk by the first Swiss astronaut, Claude Nicollier, who wants to share his experience in space with the IAC staff on Wednesday 30 October at 14:30.

Claude Nicollier is the first Swiss astronaut to have flown into space. After his studies at the Universities of Geneva and Lausanne, Claude joined ESA as a member of their first group of astronauts. Since 2007 Claude has been a Professor at the Federal Polytechnical School at Lausanne.

He has spent more than 1000 hours in space (more than 42 days) including a space walk of over 8 hours. He participated in four missions with the Space Shuttle, of which two were concerned with the Hubble Space Telescope. The first was to rescue the telescope from the initial mistake with its optics, turning it into the most successful space telescope and the second to renew or substitute several of its instruments. 

Claude will talk about aspects of these missions, and in general terms about some of the outstanding discoveries made by HST. 

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