User:Streetlampguy301/Arnaud Prost

Arnaud Prost (born 1992) is a French military engineer, aircraft pilot and a European Astronauts reservist.

Training
Arnaud Prost joined the polytechnique university in 2012. He completed his initial military training as a Polytechnic Officer Cadet (EOX) in the French Army, and was assigned to the Midshipman rank during the 1st Parachute Hussar Regiment. He was appointed as a second lieutenant at the end of his training. He is curently undergoing a research internship at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory with the Entry, Descent and Landing Team in Pasadena, USA. where he studied possible landing sites for the Mars 2020 rover mission.

In 2015-2016, he worked as a professional diver and engineer at the Space and Innovation Department of COMEX in Marseille, in the framework of the Moonwalk project, on underwater Extra Vehicular Activity simulations and astronaut-robot cooperation in analog environments.

In 2016, he was appointed as a weapons engineer in the Directorate General of Armaments (DGA).

In 2017, he obtained an engineering degree from the National Higher French Institute of Aeronautics and Space and a master's degree in Astrophysics, Space Sciences and Planetology from the Paul Sabatier University of Toulouse. He completed a research internship at the Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics at Moscow State University and at the Moscow Aviation Institute in Russia.

From 2017 to 2020, he was trained as a pilot with the French Air and Space Force and received a fighter pilot license. .

Career
Arnaud Prost has been assigned to the DGA Flight Test Center in Istres since 2020. He initially worked on the development of new flight simulator functionalities, the use of artificial intelligence in air combat and on the preparation of future test campaigns for the Future Combat Air System.

Since the summer of 2022, he has been a member of the integrated flight test team for the Rafale fighter program, made up of military and civilian pilots and flight engineers. In particular, he has worked on the Rafale's human-computer interfaces.

Arnaud speaks English and Russian. He also holds a commercial pilot license and is a pilot of the technical corps of the Directorate General of Armaments.

Astronautics
In November 2022, Arnaud Prost was appointed to the European Astronaut Corps of the European Space Agency (ESA), as a reserve astronaut. He remains in his current job but is required to spend four to five weeks per year at the Astronaut Center for training, scientific experiments or communication operations.

Personal life
In his spare time, he enjoys deep diving, snorkeling, rugby and swimming. His other interests include hiking and crafts.