Pressure gauge of combination which carries the... Lot 1

Pressure gauge of combination which carries the initials "J L C" (Jean-Loup CHRETIEN). This manometer comes from a suit of Jean-Loup CHRETIEN (the tradition wanted that the manometers are given to the cosmonaut after a flight). (Each object having belonged to M Jean-Loup Chrétien will be accompanied by a certificate signed by his hand). The suit has a manometer that allows to check the pressure inside the suit. Jean-Loup Chrétien, cosmonaut and Air Force general,has accumulated more than 12,000 flight hours in various aircraft, including the Russian Tupolev 154, MIG 25 and Sukoi 26 and 27. A veteran of three space flights, he was the 10th Intercosmos cosmonaut and spent a total of 43 days, 11 hours, 18 minutes, 42 seconds in space, including an EVA of 5 hours, 57 minutes. Born in 1938, he graduated as a fighter pilot and received a master's degree in aeronautical engineering in 1961. He graduated in 1970 from the Ecole Française des Pilotes d'Essais EPNER, and began his career as a fighter pilot flying Super-Mystere B2s, then Mirage III interceptors. In the 1970s, he became supervisor of the flight test program for the Mirage F-1 fighter. In April 1979, the Soviet Union offered France the opportunity to fly a cosmonaut on a Franco-Soviet space flight. In June 1980, he was selected to follow the training of cosmonauts at the Cité des étoiles, near Moscow. On June 24, 1982, Jean-Loup Chrétien took off from Baïkonourand became the first European and French to go into space. On board of the Soyuz T-6 spacecraft, Jean-Loup Chretien, Dzhanibekov and Ivanchenkov docked to the space station Salyut 7 and joined the crew of Berezovoi and Lebedev already on board. The flight lasts 7 days, 21 hours, 50 minutes, 42 seconds, during which they will carry out a program of joint French-Soviet experiments. Jean-Loup Chrétien made his second space flight as a researcher-cosmonaut on board the Soyuz TM-7, which was launched on November 26, 1988. Jean-Loup Chrétien, Volkov and Krikalev, join the space station Mir 1 and find the crew of Titov Manarov and Polyakov already on board. The mission lasts 24 days, 18 hours, 7 minutes, during which the crew will carry out a program of joint French-Soviet experiments. Jean-Loup Chrétien realized an EVA of 5 hours and 57 minutes, and became the first French cosmonaut to realize a "spacewalk". During the 3rd Mission, Jean-Loup Chrétien is part of the crew of STS-86 of the American space shuttle Atlantis from September 25th to October 6th 1997. The crew joined the Russian space station Mir, and collaborated with the American crew members Mike Foale and David Wolf. The duration of the mission was 10 days, 19 hours, 21 minutes. Jean-Loup Chrétien has reached the official French age limit of 60, and has been offered by NASA the opportunity to stay at the Houston Johnson Space Center and become an American NASA astronaut. After holding several positions, he was assigned to the position of "Crew Operation Assistant" to the NASA JSC Director. Jean-Loup Chrétien retired from NASA in 2001 and focused on developing a commercial career in the Houston, Texas area and in France developing the company Tietronix. Jean-Loup Chrétien's outstanding career has been crowned with numerous titles including Commander of the Order of the Legion of Honor, Hero of the Soviet Union, and the NASA Flight Medal [...].