16 November 2016
Proxima mission to the ISS ready for launch tomorrow
On Thursday 17th November, ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson and Roscosmos commander Oleg Novitsky will head to the... audio https://proxima.cnes.fr/fr/AllezThomas Astronauts Peggy Whitson, Oleg Novitsky and Thomas Pesquet
29 July 2020
NASA announces astronauts to fly on SpaceX Crew-2 mission to ISS
.... JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet will join as mission specialists. Crew-2 is targeted to launch in spring 2021, following the successful completion of both...
June 2017
Automated or human-operated systems?
... fired the retrorockets at the right time and splashed down close to the recovery ship. ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet installing the MARES machine in Europe’s Columbus space laboratory. ESA astronaut Tim Peake during his 4 hour...
September 2017
Spaceflight studies support geriatric health on Earth
... (ISS) eight years ago the resistance exercise component of total in-flight exercise has increased. ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet is carried to a waiting helicopter after six months in space. He returned to Earth in June 2017, landing on the steppe...
July 2021
A shared vision for space exploration
... and beyond. The ISS is seen as a perfect example of international cooperation. Here, during some down time, ESA’s Thomas Pesquet ‘carries’ NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei on his shoulders in the weightless environment of the Kibo lab module...
February 2023
How to grow plants in a spacecraft
... nutrients (which are altered in packaged food) and reduce diet fatigue. Mark Vande Hei, Shane Kimbrough, Thomas Pesquet, Akihiko Hoshide and Megan McArthur of the Space X Crew-02 posing with their harvest of red and green...
