As part of the July 14 commemorations, Thomas Pesquet spent time aboard the French Navy's nuclear attack submarine
Suffren
.
His experience will be the subject of a report as part of the broadcast of the parade on France 2. The astronaut recounts his experience between stars and abysses, as well as his vision of the conquest of space.
LE FIGARO.- You have just come out of the submarine, what are your reactions?
Thomas PESQUET
.- On board, the environment is very similar to the ISS space station.
Admittedly, there is a little more accessible volume because a submarine has several decks, but the use of each square centimeter is optimized as in the ISS.
The big difference is that, in the station, we have a view by putting our nose to the window, which changes a lot of things about the perception of confinement.
The view makes the isolation and confinement a little easier to live with in the ISS.
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