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As Thomas Pesquet is just back to Earth, Andrew Winnard, a Physiotherapist, Lecturer in Musculoskeletal/Clinical Biomechanics at Northumbria University in Newcastle and Coordinator of the UK Space Environments Association, explains the physical impact of a 6-month journey in weightless conditions.
A Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft carrying French astronaut Thomas Pesquet and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy landed on the Kazakh steppe Friday, ending their marathon 196-day mission to the International Space Station. IMAGES (COMPLETES VID1037241_EN)
A Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft carrying French astronaut Thomas Pesquet and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy landed on the Kazakh steppe Friday, ending their marathon 196-day mission to the International Space Station. IMAGES
Three days ahead of his return to Earth, French astronaut Thomas Pesquet shares with AFP his reflections on spending six months on board the International Space Station. Among other impressions, Pesquet shares his appreciation for the fragility of his home planet. "You don't realise how thin the atmosphere is," he says "you don't realise how easily we can harm the planet and how important it is to protect it. We only have one."
The crew of the first fully private mission to the International Space Station departs the orbiting laboratory to head back to Earth aboard the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft.
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