Astronaut & Honorary Professor at EPFL in Lausanne CH: Claude Nicollier was an astrophysicist and an Air Force pilot in Switzerland. He joined the European Space Agency (ESA) in 1978 in the first group of ESA astronauts. Claude Nicollier flew 4 missions to Earth Orbit with the US Space Shuttle, including 2 servicing missions of the Hubble Space Telescope, between 1992 and 1999. He later became a Professor in Aerospace Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland, and, from 2015, honorary Professor, but still involved in teaching and supporting student projects in this Institute in 2022.