Excellence with passion
SPACE AS A PROFESSION
Our alumni are talented, and the space field is a demanding environment that involves a high degree of technicity. With Space as a profession, our alumni pursue the scientific and human adventure in a spirit of conquest for space exploration and a mastery of manned flight. Astronauts and candidate astronauts, and engineers working closely with current orbital missions or those of the future, they are driven by a passion at CNES, ESA, NASA, major industrial groups, small businesses and start-ups.
OUR ASTRONAUT ALUMNI
Thomas Pesquet - Engineer S2001
> Mentor of the OSE l’ISAE-SUPAERO diversity program
> Astronaut at ESA (European Space Agency)
> Mentor of the ISAE-SUPAERO Engineering Class of 2018
Luca Parmitano - IVEX Advanced Master / Experimental Flight Test engineering
> Astronaut at ESA (European Space Agency)
Jean-François Clervoy - Engineer S1983
> Astronaut at ESA (European Space Agency)
OUR ALUMNI WORKING CLOSELY ON SPACE MISSIONS
Rémi Canton - Engineer S2000
> Head of the 2021 Alpha mission
> Project leader - Manager of CADMOS - Microgravity Development and Manned Flight - at CNES
Sébastien Barde - Engineer S1994
> Assistant director of Science and Exploration at CNES
> Head of the 2017 Proxima mission
Hervé Stevenin - Advanced Master 1986
> Head of the astronaut spacewalk training program at ESA
> Astronaut instructor at ESA’s European Astronaut Center
> Mentor for the 2016 ISAE-SUPAERO Master’s Degree graduating class
Chloé Audas - Engineer S2014
> Scientific Missions Engineer - Space Applications Services NV/SA
Nicolas Maubert - Engineer S2001
> CNES representative and space advisor at the French Embassy in the United States
OUR ENGINEER ALUMNI FOR THE FUTURE TRIPS
Philippe Berthe - Engineer S1987
> Head of coordination at ESA for the Orion European Service Module project
Alexis Paillet - Engineer S2005
> Head of the SpaceShip France project at CNES
OUR CANDIDATE ASTRONAUT ALUMNI
Victoria DA-Poïan, Simon Bouriat and Maxime Grandin hope to participate in future space missions and to continue making progress in science and technologies. They have filed their candidacies with the recruitment campaign for future astronauts at the European Space Agency – ESA – open until May 28th. Other ISAE-SUPAERO graduates, men and women alike, are also sure to apply to join the ESA astronaut corps, which currently has seven members.
Victoria Da Poian - Engineer S2019
> Aerospace Engineer and Data Scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Simon Bouriat - Engineer S2019
> Space Environment Engineer at SpaceAble
Maxime Grandin - Engineer S2013
> Researcher in the physique of Sun-Earth interactions at the University of Helsinki