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If there is one man on Earth and in the air who knows the meaning of the word confinement, it is he: Thomas Pesquet.
In 2016-2017, the French astronaut spent nearly 200 days in the international space station, at an altitude of 400 km.
With only two extra-vehicular outings that consisted not of buying bread or jogging among the stars, but of carrying out electrical and hydraulic repairs - to be an engineer and a training airline pilot, you are not. less plumber and electrician by destination.
Astonishing boy, Pesquet agreed to re-stack for a second space containment, four years later.
This time, he will fly aboard a launcher from Elon Musk's private company SpaceX, the Dragon 2. He has been training for this for many months, alone or with his travel companions, in France, Hungary or the United States.
Simulation of extra-vehicular outing in a training pool.
Nasa
Scheduled for the end of April 2021, the mission will be called Alpha, like the moon base of the heroes of the cult 70s series,
Cosmos 99
.
Precisely, the Moon is one of the next objectives of the French astronaut, recalls Vincent Jolly, in the very detailed portrait he devotes to this hero who is sent into the air for the glory of France ... and of science. : what he is doing up there has the primary objective of improving our knowledge of the cosmos.
And to promote its exploration, which whets the appetites of the Gafam.
As Cyril Hofstein's investigation underlines, American private companies are teaming up to invite themselves into the race for the stars, convinced that space represents a new Eldorado.
A new
Star Wars
in sight?
But real this time?
Heaven is also a subject of concern for the former Primate of Gaul, Monsignor Barbarin.
But well beyond the ISS.
And the Moon.
And the Sun.
Beyond.
There where no one has returned, but where, like a good Christian, he will go without displeasure because the Good Lord is waiting for him there.
In the meantime, retired in Brittany after being cleared in the Preynat affair, he cultivates his garden, his talents as a pianist and his art of tidying up, having just returned from books the 950 books constituting his personal library (among them,
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