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Claude Nicollier has announced he will be leaving ESA

April 11, 2003 2:16 PM

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Swiss astronaut Claude Nicollier has announced he will be leaving the
European Space Agency by the end of 2004.

Nicollier, a veteran of four Space Shuttle flights - including a repair
mission for the Hubble telescope - said he wanted to concentrate on his
teaching duties at the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne.
The 59-year-old astronaut joined Esa in 1978.

He is the only Swiss to have flown in space and no others are
currently part of the European astronaut programme.

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