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After a few last words with his partner, French astronaut Thomas Pesquet gets into the car that will take him and his three crewmates to the Crew Dragon. The capsule is due to liftoff at 09:49 GMT for the International Space Station (ISS). IMAGES
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. French President Emmanuel Macron watched the capsule landing live. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron receives French eSports gamers at the Elysee Palace on the eve of the annual Trackmania Cup 2022 competition. IMAGES
"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
France's triumphant judokas are greeted by nearly a thousand people at the Trocadéro fan zone, in Paris. Led by double medalists at the Tokyo Olympics Teddy Riner and Clarisse Agbegnenou, the judokas said a few words, each draped in blue, white and red. IMAGES
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