Thomas Gautier Pesquet is a French aerospace engineer, pilot, European Space Agency astronaut and actor.
35 Facts About Thomas Pesquet
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From November 2016 to June 2017, Thomas Pesquet was part of Expedition 50 and Expedition 51 as a flight engineer.
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Thomas Pesquet returned to space in April 2021 on board the SpaceX Crew Dragon for a second six-month stay on the ISS.
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Thomas Pesquet was born in Rouen, France and considers Dieppe his hometown.
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Thomas Pesquet is a black belt in judo and lists basketball, jogging, swimming and squash as his favourite sports.
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Thomas Pesquet is an outdoor and adventure activities enthusiast, and enjoys mountain biking, kite surfing, sailing, skiing and mountaineering.
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Thomas Pesquet has extensive experience with, and holds advanced licenses in, both scuba diving and parachuting.
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Thomas Pesquet is a supporter of the French football team, as well as the French rugby team and the Stade Toulousain.
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Thomas Pesquet graduated from the Lycee Pierre Corneille in Rouen, France, in 1996.
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Thomas Pesquet spent his final year before graduation at the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada, as an exchange student on the Aeronautics and Space Master.
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Thomas Pesquet graduated from the Air France flight school in 2006.
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Thomas Pesquet speaks French, English, Spanish, Chinese, German and Russian, and is a member of the French Aeronautics and Astronautics Association, and of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
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Between 2002 and 2004, Thomas Pesquet worked at the French space agency, CNES, as a research engineer on space missions autonomy.
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Thomas Pesquet carried out various studies on future European ground segment design and European space technology harmonization.
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Thomas Pesquet went on to become a commercial pilot for the French airline, where he started flying the Airbus A320 in 2006.
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Thomas Pesquet has logged more than 2000 hours flying time on various commercial airliners, and has qualified as a type-rating flight instructor on the A320, and as a Crew Resource Management instructor.
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In 2018, Thomas Pesquet gained his Airbus A310 type rating and is qualified as a Novespace Zero-G aircraft pilot.
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Thomas Pesquet was selected as a European Space Agency astronaut in May 2009.
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Thomas Pesquet joined ESA in September 2009 and successfully completed Astronaut Basic Training in November 2010.
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Thomas Pesquet is the youngest member of the European Astronaut Corps, and the last of the ESA astronaut class of 2009 to arrive in space.
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On 10 June 2014, NASA announced that Thomas Pesquet would serve as an aquanaut aboard the Aquarius underwater laboratory during the NEEMO 18 undersea exploration mission, which began on 21 July 2014 and lasted nine days.
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Thomas Pesquet has taken part in ESA's CAVES underground course in 2011 and NASA's SEATEST II mission in 2013, furthering his experience in exploration.
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In 2014, Thomas Pesquet was chosen by ESA for a six-month mission to the International Space Station starting in November 2016.
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Thomas Pesquet was the backup to ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen who flew to the International Space Station on a 10-day flight in September 2015.
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Thomas Pesquet launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome onboard Soyuz MS-03 on November 17,2016.
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Thomas Pesquet's arrival marked the beginning of the European Proxima mission.
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The X inside the logo symbolizes that Thomas Pesquet is the tenth French astronaut as well as the unknown.
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Thomas Pesquet performed his first EVA with astronaut Shane Kimbrough on January 13,2017.
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On March 23,2017, Thomas Pesquet performed his second career EVA with Shane Kimbrough.
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Expedition 50 Commander Kimbrough and Thomas Pesquet disconnected cables and electrical connections on PMA-3 to prepare for its robotic move on March 26,2017.
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Thomas Pesquet has spent 196 days, 17 hours and 49 minutes in space.
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The fourth EVA was originally planned to be performed by Akihiko Hoshide and Mark Vande Hei but due to a medical issue for Vande Hei, Thomas Pesquet exited for the sixth time of his career the ISS to perform a spacewalk.
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Thomas Pesquet transferred the command of the station to his Russian colleague Anton Shkaplerov on November 6,2021.
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On 12 April 2021, Thomas Pesquet was nominated Goodwill Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
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At the closing ceremony of the 2020 Summer Olympics, during the "handoff" portion introducing Paris as the host of the 2024 Summer Olympics, Thomas Pesquet performed the closing bars of the French national anthem La Marseillaise on a saxophone while aboard the International Space Station.