“people don’t understand, the world is an oasis, there is nothing around it”
Who better to talk about our place in the universe and praise Earth than astronaut Thomas Pesquet? pic.twitter.com/iybZLlnEng
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Thomas Pesquet is not just a skilled pilot and astronaut. Having spent more than 200 days in space, the Frenchman is also a photographer. He brought back hundreds of photos of our planet seen from the sky from his trips to the International Space Station. On Wednesday, November 2, the astronaut publishes the book “The Earth is in Our Hands”, which brings together 300 of his most beautiful photographs taken in orbit.
He was invited to the show tonight by Yann Barthes.DailyTo talk about his work, Thomas Pesquet at TMC explains why it’s vital to protect our planet: “It’s not much. People don’t realize it, Earth feels like it’s endless, but this is an oasis. You can see every corner from the station and it’s so finished and that’s what shocks.”explains.
He adds: “There’s nothing around it, and theoretically you have to go really, really far to have a chance at life. We talk a lot about exoplanets, but the closest it would be 4 light-years away is 400,000 billion kilometers, which doesn’t make sense.”
Thomas Pesquet tries to answer Yann Barthès’ question. “why are we here and why this planet”. “The deeper we go into the cosmos, the more we try to understand all this. We only know a very small part of what we want to know, and our place in it, I think, is what worries us. We want to understand our place, what are we doing there, how did we get there, where are we going? That’s what fascinates me about space exploration.”grinned.
“I may not see it for the rest of my life, but it is this quest that is beautiful”it adds.
Thomas Pesquet adds that his two trips into space taught him that. “The world is fragile”. He explains: “We know this from Earth but it’s not bad to see it in place, putting it all on a scale that we can perceive with our sensory animal senses!”
Hired by the National Center for Space Research in 2002, Thomas Pesquet worked, among other things, on the autonomy of space missions until 2004. The young man later became a pilot for Air France and accumulated more than 2500 flight hours. In 2008, he applied for the European Astronaut Corps recruitment campaign. He was one of six selected from 8,413 applicants in May 2009, making him the youngest astronaut ever hired by the European Space Agency (ESA). He learns and begins his education in Russian, which is vital for communicating on the International Space Station (ISS).
In 2017, Thomas Pesquet became the tenth Frenchman in space. It returns for a 6-month mission in space on April 23, 2021.
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Source: Programme Television
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