French Astronaut Claudie (André-Deshays) Haigneré  Sokol Spacesuit pair of gloves, Soyuz TM-24 Mir Space Station, Cassiopée mission.

At that time Claudie Haigneré carried her maiden name André-Deshays, after marriage to Jean-Pierre Haigneré she became Claudie Haigneré.

The gloves are part of the Sokol KV-2 (Falcon) pressure suit, is white nylon canvas around the wrist with an anodized aluminum coupling that attaches the glove to the suit. The astronaut's initials in Russian, A-DC, which stands for André-Deshays Claudie. The hand and finger portion of the glove sconsist of a custom molded rubber hands that is reinforced with leather in the palm. Between the leather and rubber are metal reinforcement bars that prevent the glove from distending while under pressure.

Good condition, considering the age of the gloves (28 years) .

Excellent artifact for pristine space memorabilia collection.

Claudie (André-Deshays) Haigneré (born 13 May 1957) is a French doctor, politician and former  astronaut, the first woman astronaut of the French space agency CNES and the European space agency ESA which went to space.

In 1994, Claudie (André-Deshays) Haigneré began training at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, for the Franco-Russian Cassiopée mission and learned Russian during her time there. On 17 August 1996, she became the first French woman to go to space as she and two Russian cosmonauts, commander Valery Korzun and flight engineer Aleksandr Kaleri, launched into space aboard the Soyuz TM-24 on the Russian-French Cassiopée mission.While on the mission, Haigneré visited Mir Space Station for 16 days and she conducted comprehensive experiments in the fields of physiology and developmental biology, fluid physics and technology.

Soyuz TM-24 was the 27th expedition to Mir. Soyuz TM-24 carried a crew of three. The crew consisted of Cosmonauts Valery Korzun and Aleksandr Kaleri, and the first French woman in space, Claudie André-Deshays. They joined American astronaut Shannon Lucid and Mir 21 crewmates Yuri Onufriyenko and Yuri Ucashev. André-Deshays carried out biological and medical experiments on Mir for 16 days (the Cassiopée mission) before returning to Earth with Onufriyenko and Usachev.

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