Talk by Prof. Dr. Claude Nicollier, Swiss Astronaut

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Prof. Dr. Claude Nicollier, Swiss astronaut © FDFA

Join us for a talk by Prof. Dr. Claude Nicollier, the one and only Swiss Astronaut. During the 1990’s, Claude Nicollier flew on four Space Shuttle missions and has logged more than 1000 hours in space, including a spacewalk of more than 8 hours to install new equipment on the Hubble Space Telescope on STS-103. He retired from the European Space Agency (ESA) in 2007, and is currently a member of the Swiss Space Center and an honorary professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne or EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) where he teaches a course on “Space Mission Design and Operations”. From 2007 to 2016, he was involved in the «Solar Impulse» project and was responsible for its test flights. Claude Nicollier is a recipient of Honorary Doctorates from EPFL, and the Universities of Geneva and Basel.

Date & Time
Friday 22 September 2018, 2:30pm – 4:00pm

RSVP by 19 September to sin.vertretung@eda.admin.ch

Jointly organized by Swiss Embassy and NYAA Council

Supported by ITE