Jean-Francois Clervoy (born 1958) is a French engineer and an ESA astronaut. He has participated in three NASA Space Shuttle missions. Clervoy was born in Longeville-les-Metz, France. He completed his high school education at Saint-Cyr Lycee before joining a class for preparation of Grandes Ecoles and being admitted to the Ecole Polytechnique. Later, he attended the SUPAERO engineering school and then the EPNER (Ecole du Personnel Navigant dEssais et Reception), a test pilot/engineer school based in Istres, France. There, he underwent training as a test engineer. He was selected as a candidate for the French space program in 1985 and underwent extensive training at the Russian Star City before being named to the European Space Agencys astronaut corps in 1992. He flew on three Space Shuttle flights as a mission specialist: STS-66 in 1994, STS-84 in 1997, and STS-103 in 1999, a Hubble Space Telescope repair mission. Currently, he is involved in the Automated Transfer Vehicle program as a support astronaut. Additionally, he serves as the president of Novespace, a European company that provides zero-gravity flights using an Airbus A300.