ESA astronaut Jean-Pierre Haigneré has spent six months on board the Russian space station Mir.
Haignere left the corps in November 1999 after his second flight to become Head of the Astronaut Division. In 2003 he became senior advisor to the ESA Director of Launchers and is currently studying all aspects for a Soyuz human spaceflight programme from Europe's spaceport in French Guiana.