Thomas Pesquet: after space, the Moon?

Thomas Pesquet had his head in the clouds, but could soon have him in the moon. The astronaut, at a press conference on Friday, November 12, displayed a broad smile while evoking his dream. “Setting foot on the moon, of course, is everyone’s dream “, he admits. “Even if we don’t go face-to-face, anyway, play a role in this exploration, in my opinion it’s going to be a bit of a thrilling experience for years to come”Thomas added Pesquet.

The conquest of the moon will resume in February 2022, with the program Artemis. The Nasa fine-tune its giant 98-meter rocket, and will achieve its first unmanned flight. Artemis then plans to build a space station, which will orbit the moon. The project is funded by the United States, Japan and Europe. Three places will be reserved for Europeans. At 43, Thomas Pesquet, first French commander of theISS, meets the criteria. “He’s been in space two times already, an absolutely incredible number of spacewalks.”, explains Philippe Baptiste, president of the national center for space studies (CNES), which also recognizes, among other things, an excellent “stress resistance”.