Hervé Stevenin Orlan suit

Hervé Stevenin in the Russian Orlan suit for training.

Hervé was born 25 September 1962 in France. He leads ESA Neutral Buoyancy Facility Operations and the EVA Training Unit at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne (EAC), Germany.

Hervé is ESA’s spacewalk instructor for European astronauts and leads the team that develops and implements spacewalk training at EAC. He has more than 20 years’ experience in astronaut training and providing operational support for astronauts and has received extensive astronaut training himself. He has provided EVA training at EAC to the six European astronauts selected by ESA in 2009.

He is ESA’s Zero-G Instructor for European astronauts in parabolic flights and serves as Eurocom, the European Capcom that communicates from Columbus Control Centre with astronauts in orbit.