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Astronauts Thomas Pesquet and Shane Kimbrough perform their second spacewalk on the International Space Station, as part of the Alpha mission, to continue the installation of a solar array outside the station. IMAGES
French astronaut Thomas Pesquet has returned to Earth after six months on the International Space Station. He gave a press conference in Cologne on Friday and spoke about his experience in space and his return to "normal" life.
"All the ground teams really across the world made it easy on us to live and work onboard the ISS," astronaut Thomas Pesquet says during a change of command ceremony aboard the International Space Station. SOUNDBITE
Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide handed command of the International Space Station over to French astronaut Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency in a ceremony aboard the station. "If I am the first French commander of a space vehicle today, it is largely to you that I owe it," Pesquet said as he thanked his home country shortly after receiving the key to the ISS.
French astronaut Thomas Pesquet and his American colleague Shane Kimbrough completed a six-hour spacewalk Sunday as they installed new solar panels to boost power supplies to the International Space Station (ISS), NASA said. The astronauts started Sunday’s spacewalk picking up where they left off Wednesday, when a string of problems prevented them from unrolling the high-tech solar panel.
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