Interview with Thomas Pesquet on return to Earth a second time
ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet gives a brief interview in Cologne, Germany, less than 48 hours after leaving the International Space Station.
He talks with ESA Web TV editor Julien Harrod about returning to Earth after his six-month International Space Station mission Alpha, how it feels to splash down in a @SpaceX Crew Dragon, and the differences with the Russian Soyuz spacecraft that flew him to space on his first mission, Proxima, in 2017.
After completing two six-month Space Station missions in five years, Thomas recounts the changes he saw while observing our planet Earth from 400 km above.
Thomas is the first European to fly to the International Space Station and return on a commercial spacecraft. SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Endeavour transporting Crew-2 autonomously undocked from the International Space Station and after a series of burns, entered Earth’s atmosphere and deployed parachutes for a soft water-landing. Thomas and crew splashed down on 9 November 2021 at 03:33 GMT (04:33 CET).
Thomas flew to Cologne, Germany, where he is being monitored by ESA’s space medicine team as he readapts to Earth’s gravity at ESA’s European Astronaut Centre (EAC) and @DLR ‘Envihab’ facility.
Over 200 experiments were run during Thomas’ time in space, with 40 European ones and 12 new experiments led by the French space agency @CNES. The experiments continue on Earth charting the astronauts physical adaptation to living with gravity again.
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Have a fantastic time, Astronaut Thomas.P
🌴💙🐜🕸🐹 ESA and Astronaut Thomas.P
50ish m/s sounds very survivable, reentry being 4G.
To be fair it sounds pretty unlikely.
est ce que l'envie de repartir ce ne serait pas enfin de compte, une envie d'absolue, d'envie d'être autre chose qu'un humain ? :o)
P.S.: je ne sais pas ce que cette expérience astronautique laisserait comme traces dans le karma. y a une astrophysique bouddhiste !
As a member of humanity, i am so proud of Thomas for completing his second flight to space!
Merci Thomas
conclusion de thomas la planête est à moitié foutu…
Herzlich Willkommen zurück, Thomas!! 😀🌍🌠🚀
Great information !
Cc, je ne comprends rien. Vous ne pourriez pas le refaire en francais.
Perfectly professionnal, perfect english, perfect answers….this guy isn't human!!!! he's a perfect cyborg 🤣🤣🤣
nothing to say about him
Bravo Thomas mais aussi à toute l'équipe. Nous sommes fiers de vous! Remettez-vous bien et espérons que ces 6 mois dans l'espace n'auront pas trop de répercussions sur votre métabolisme général. Bienvenue à la maison.
Enjoy ur rest thomas 👍👍