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Ecology, fake news, decline… After two hundred days spent in space, the astronaut takes out a book from Flammarion and sounds the alarm.
By Chloe Durand-Parenti and Julie Malaure
Outdoors. Thomas Pesquet passing through Paris on October 7. He publishes “The Earth between our hands”, at Flammarion-ESA.
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Thomas Pesquet is the tenth Frenchman to have gone into space since the beginning of the conquest of the cosmos, and the only one since 2008. In 2016, at 38, he was also the youngest astronaut of the European Space Agency to embarked on the International Space Station.
In 2021, at the controls of his second mission aboard the ISS – two hundred days in a station the size of a football field – the Norman returned with 245,000 shots, taken day and night, sorted in the space. Expected to be the first French lunar walker, following twelve American astronauts (since 1969, with Armstrong and Aldrin), the prince of the stars takes advantage of his time on Earth to compose an exceptional book, text and images (“The Earth in our hands…
KHANH RENAUD FOR “LE POINT” – NASA/NYT/REDUX/RéA – ESA/NASA – Thomas Pesquet/SP (x4)