After Josiane Balasko, Virginie Efira, Angèle, Julien Doré, Camille Cottin, Gilles Lellouche or even the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron, Thomas Pesquet was the guest of the last issue of the Rencontres du Papotin on Saturday June 24.
The astronaut, who became the first to be the captain of the International Space Station (ISS) was entitled to a few questions about his private life and his companion, Anne Mottet. “It’s difficult to be alone. You have to be very independent but a lot of things are easier to live with as a couple, it’s good to talk. We see each other regularly so it’s fine but it would be good to see each other more often. It’s hard to have two demanding jobs at the same time. She would have had to quit her job so that we could see each other all the time, but I didn’t want to demand that she quit her job. job. She continued and she is very happy but the consequence of that is that we see each other less often”explained the forties on France 2.
One of the journalists asked this close friend of Pierre Niney why he had no children. “If I had children, I would still go to space, which means that she would manage everything on her own, and that is not possible. You cannot have children and say that this It’s okay. It would have been very selfish of me. People who have children, returning from a mission is difficult.”
A matter of choice
In April 2021, in the columns of the Parisian Weekendthe star of space indicated that his profession was not “ideal for the family”. “Astronaut is an all-consuming passion. You have to try to take full advantage of it between missions. It’s a job that contaminates everything. You easily get absorbed and the family then comes second, unfortunately”he confided, adding in passing that if he and his sweetheart had not become parents it was because they did not have “never had so much time, nor the irrepressible desire to have it”.
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