Jean-Loup Chrétien made a career in technology at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Jean-Loup Chrétien as French astronaut (born 1938).
Jean-Loup Chrétien was born at La Rochelle in 1938. His recorded nationality is the United States. He was educated at School of the Air and Space.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
The record gives his occupations as astronaut, fighter pilot and military personnel.
Technical work compounds - each layer makes the next one cheaper to attempt.
The honours are a fair index of how the work was received - Commander of the Legion of Honour and Knight of the National Order of Merit.
Working from the United States shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Achievements
- Commander of the Legion of Honour
- Knight of the National Order of Merit
- Educated at School of the Air and Space
- Worked as astronaut, fighter pilot and military personnel
