Claudie Haignere, France’s first woman astronaut and a former government minister, was hospitalized after a suicide attempt, Agence France-Presse said.
Haignere, 51, also the first European woman to board the International Space Station in 2001, was found late yesterday at her home where she had overdosed on pills, AFP said, citing an unidentified government official. She was admitted, still conscious, to Paris’s Val de Grace military hospital, AFP said.
In 1996, Haignere flew to Russia’s Mir space station. She later served as Research and New Technologies Minister from June 2002 to March 2004, and then as European Affairs Minister until May 2005 under former President Jacques Chirac. She is married to fellow astronaut Jean-Pierre Haignere, who took part in two missions to Mir, one for six months in 1999.
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