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It was the much-awaited conclusion of the Demo-2 mission, the first manned flight of the private company, SpaceX, for NASA. On 30 May, the Crew Dragon capsule with Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken aboard had taken off to reach the International Space Station the next day. After 64 days in orbit, this return confirmed the […]

The Artemis programme for returning to and onto the Moon continues its preparations. After the success of the Artemis I automatic flight at the end of 2022, the next big step will be Artemis II. It will again be a mission around our natural satellite (therefore no landing), but this time the Orion capsule will accommodate four […]

Without any real surprise, the American agency officially announced during a press conference on January 9 a postponement of the next missions of the Artemis programme back to the Moon. The programme associates NASA with the space agencies of Europe (ESA), Japan (JAXA) and Canada (ASC) and more recently the United Arab Emirates. Artemis II in 2025 Astronauts safety […]

It was the culmination of the change of the crew of the International Space Station (ISS) marked by the passage from Expedition 69 to 70: the return to Earth of Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitry Petelin and Francisco Rubio. Departing for the station on September 21, 2022 in another Russian vessel (Soyuz MS-22), they landed a little […]

Alpha, Thomas Pesquet’s second mission, lasted 199 days and 17 hours, i.e. three days more than Proxima, his previous mission. Days at the pace of a work schedule timed down to every five minutes to take part in 255 scientific experiments. The tenth French person in space is also the first European aboard a Crew […]

Thomas Pesquet and Matthias Maurer, both astronauts of the European Space Agency (ESA), should have met up there aboard the International Space Station (ISS) for a few days. But delays (weather then a minor health problem) to take-off of the Crew-3 to the station led to the French astronaut returning with his Crew-2 colleagues on […]

The tenth French person in space arrived aboard the ISS on 24 April, travelling on the Crew Dragon Endeavour capsule of the private company SpaceX on behalf of NASA. He was accompanied by Americans Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, as well as Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide. THOMAS PESQUET RECEIVES THE KEY OF THE ISS That […]

Inspiration 4 was the first time a ship orbited the Earth with only non-professional astronauts. This mission, carried out by private firm SpaceX, was wholly financed by American billionaire Jared Isaacman, who invited three of his compatriots aboard. After almost three days in orbit, the Crew Dragon Resilience capsule (second flight) splashed down on 18 […]

Since its successful launch on 30 July, the Perseverance rover has been on a 480 million kilometre journey to reach the red planet. It will land there in the Jezero Crater on 18 February 2021. Equipped with instruments for detecting traces of past life and the SuperCam laser camera supplied by France through its CNES […]

In November 2016, European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut, Thomas Pesquet became the tenth French person in space, taking off to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard the Soyuz MS-03. That was the Proxima mission, which ended with his return on 2 June 2017 and which was regularly monitored by Cité de l’espace. It was officially […]