Jean-Jacques Favier belongs to the record of technology as a figure whose work outlasted the moment that produced it.
The record lists Jean-Jacques Favier as French astronaut (1949–2023).
Jean-Jacques Favier was born at Kehl in 1949. His recorded nationality is France. He was educated at Grenoble Alpes University and Mines ParisTech.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
Jean-Jacques Favier is described as astronaut, engineer and physicist.
The engineer's achievement usually disappears into infrastructure, which is the point.
Formal recognition came in the shape of the Knight of the Legion of Honour (1996).
That the work was done from France matters. Opportunity has never been evenly distributed, and where a person is based shapes which doors open and whose work gets seen.
Death came in 2023, at 74. By then the contribution had passed into the settled record.
Achievements
- Knight of the Legion of Honour — 1996
- Educated at Grenoble Alpes University, Mines ParisTech and Grenoble Institute of Technology
- Worked as astronaut, engineer and physicist
