They will be back on Monday!
Thomas Pesquet and three other astronauts will leave the International Space Station on Sunday after spending more than six months in space, NASA said on Friday.
They will land off Florida "no earlier" than at 12:14 GMT on Monday.
The crew of Crew-2, made up of Thomas Pesquet, the Japanese Akihiko Hoshide and the Americans Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, will thus return to Earth before the arrival on board the ISS of the four astronauts of Crew-3, including the take-off was delayed several times, in particular because of the weather.
"As we prepare to leave, there is a bit of a bittersweet feeling," Thomas Pesquet said earlier Friday at a press conference from the space station.
“We might never come back to see the ISS again, and it truly is a magical place.
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The 43-year-old French astronaut is completing the second mission of his career in orbit, "Alpha".
He arrived aboard the ISS with his teammates on April 24, after taking off from Cape Canaveral, Florida on April 23.
For more than six months, he carried out numerous experiments on behalf of the European Space Agency (ESA), the National Center for Space Studies (Cnes) and the American Space Agency (Nasa).
