Which of these men who have been to space is older, Ivan Bella or Jean-Jacques Favier?
Jean-Jacques Favier Jean-Jacques Favier (Born April 13, 1949) is a French engineer and a former CNES astronaut who flew aboard the STS-78 NASA Space Shuttle mission. Favier was due to fly aboard the Columbia mission in 2003, but later signed out of the mission.
Ivan Papanin Ivan Dmitrievich Papanin (Russian: Иван Дмитриевич Папанин , 26 November [O.S. 14 November] 1894 – January 30, 1986) was a Soviet polar explorer, scientist, Counter Admiral, and twice Hero of the Soviet Union, who was awarded nine Orders of Lenin.