By akademiotoelektronik, 19/02/2023

Thomas Pesquet.What did he do for 200 days?

Six months to play satellites, to turn around the earth at 27,600 km/h.Six months to accumulate 2,880 rpm.Six months to contemplate our planet from the International Space Station (ISS), in orbit about 400 km above sea level.

This Friday, Thomas Pesquet, the French astronaut from Normandy, and his Russian colleague Oleg Novitski will take place in a Soyuz vessel which will disarm the ISS around 12:50 p.m. (Paris time) to land 3:20Kazakhstan steppes.

In total, the first stay in the space of Thomas Pesquet, 39, will have been 196 days, the longest duration continuously for a French astonishment.

Experiences and two outings in space

Until now, Thomas Pesquet's mission, tenth French to go to space, has taken place as on casters.The astronaut was able to make two outings in the space that went perfectly.

He has also chained many scientific experiences provided for in his program.

"Thomas got along very much with his colleagues, especially those of NASA" like Peggy Whitson, 57, underlines Brigitte Godard, her doctor at the European Space Agency (ESA).

A millimeter daily life

For six months, Thomas Pesquet will have lived at the strict rhythm of the international space station.On board which the legal hour is, arbitrarily, UTC, or GMT time (France is at UTC+1 in winter and UTC+2 summer).

A typical day aboard the ISS begins at 6 am, with an inspection of the station.Then the crew has breakfast before starting work at 8:10 a.m..A physical exercise session is planned during the morning.

At 1:05 p.m., it's the one hour lunch break, then the work resumes with a new exercise during the afternoon.The working day ends at 7:30 p.m..

After dinner and a final crew meeting comes the period allocated to rest, which starts at 9:30 p.m..

In general, the crew works ten hours a week on weekdays and five hours on Saturday, the rest of the time being devoted to relaxation activities.

Games, photos and 1.4 million friends on Facebook

Despite busy days, the aeronautical engineer and line pilot, who likes to communicate and transmit, has multiplied the games of remote answers, especially with thousands of schoolchildren."The kids, it is to them that I want to transmit the most," he wrote on his blog.

Schoolchildren, from primary to high school, were also able to participate in experiments by carrying out the same experiences as Thomas Pesquet.The 6th of the Michelet college in Tours (Indre-et-Loire) and the students of the Blaise-Pascal college in Argenton-les-Vallées (Deux-Sèvres) were thus selected to grow lens seeds, mustard, radish,On their bench.

Astronaut 2.0, Thomas Pesquet used part of his free time to share his experience on social networks.Followed by 551,000 subscribers on Twitter, 377,000 on Instagram and 1.4 million on Facebook, he machine -gunned the blue planet, posting photos of the different corners of France, including the west, he who is orginary of Normandy, striking thegeometric beauty of certain land landscapes or their fragility.

Fan of electro music, the astronaut who ended up receiving his saxophone at the end of February thanks to a supplier cargoter, also shared his musical tastes.

A changed man

Thomas also produced videos, the last of which, posted on YouTube on Sunday and entitled "A new look at the universe", takes on a philosophical tone, almost serious.

Like all trips, it leads to "introspection", he says." Who am I ?A man in space?A French astronaut?No, a man ".It took "all this technology" to get there and "understand the simplicity of things, the earth, the cosmos and the life itself as a whole.Seen from here it is really difficult to understand the borders, the wars, the hatred ".

Friday, again earthly, Thomas will regain gravity.In every sense of the term.

Figures that make you dizzy!

92.This is the number of minutes it takes at the ISS to go around the earth.Be 16 per day.And therefore 2,880 laps in the world in six months.

110.It is the length in meters of the international space station.74 meters wide, 30 high, it weighs 450 tonnes.

150.It is, in billions of dollars, the estimated cost of the ISS, launched in 1998.Or around 135 billion euros.

2,500.It is, in square meters, the area of solar panels which provide energy at the station.

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