First French woman astronaut Claudie Haigneré gives interview to ‘Kazakhstan’ TV channel (PHOTOS)
The main character of the program is the first French woman astronaut Claudie Haigneré. Over the past 8 years Claudie Haigneré has not given any media interviews. After 8 years Claudie Haigneré for the first time has given an interview to the Kazakh journalist Gulmira Dayrabayeva, the press service of JSC "Republican Television and Radio Company "Kazakhstan" reports. Haigneré visited the Mir space station for 16 days in 1996, as part of the Russian-French Cassiopée mission. The French woman passed training with the first Kazakhstan's cosmonaut Talgat Mussabayev. In 2001, Haigneré became the first European woman to visit the International Space Station, as part of the ''Andromède'' mission. She was born in Le Creusot, France, Haigneré studied medicine at the Faculté de Médecine (Paris-Cochin) and Faculté des Sciences (Paris-VII). She went on to obtain certificates in biology and sports medicine (1981), aviation and space medicine (1982), and rheumatology (1984). In 1986 she received a diploma in the biomechanics and physiology of movement. She completed her PhD thesis in neuroscience in 1992.
