Currently located in space flight. Launched on November 17, 2016 as a flight engineer for the crew of the Soyuz MS-03 manned transport spacecraft and a flight engineer for the crew of the International space station under the ISS-50 program / main space expeditions. He is the youngest ESA astronaut.

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  In 1998 he graduated from the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen.

  From September 13 to November 14, 2010, a training session was held at the Cosmonaut Training Center named after Yu. A. Gagarin. The internship program included: the study of the Russian language, familiarization training on the Russian segment of the ISS, the Soyuz spacecraft and the Sokol spacesuit, as well as flights on a Tu-134 special aircraft for visual and instrumental observations.

  In January 2012, he underwent training to practice actions after landing in a wooded and swampy area in winter.

  In September 2013, T. Peske took part in training sessions simulating work in open space that passed at the bottom Atlantic Ocean in the underwater scientific and training center "Aquarius".

  Since November 2013, he has been trained as a member of the ISS-45/46/EP-18 backup crew as a Soyuz TMA-18M TPK flight engineer and an ISS EP-18 flight engineer. In 2014 he was appointed Soyuz TMA-18M backup flight engineer. Since September 2015, he has been undergoing training as part of the ISS-48/49 backup crew as a Soyuz MS flight engineer and an ISS-48/49 flight engineer.

  On February 11, 2016, as part of the crew, together with Oleg Novitsky and Peggy Whitson, he underwent a training session on actions in the event of an emergency landing in a wooded and swampy area in winter. The crew members successfully coped with all the tasks: they built two types of shelters (a shed hut and a wigwam), marked their location for the search and rescue forces with the help of a light-signal cartridge and a fire, and provided medical care"injured" colleague at the stage of transition to the meeting point with rescuers.

  On May 26, 2016, at the Cosmonaut Training Center, together with cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky and astronaut Peggy Whitson, he passed the exam training on the Soyuz MS spacecraft simulator. On May 27, 2016, the crew passed the pre-flight examination training on the ISS Russian Segment. July 6, 2016 at the meeting State Commission for conducting flight tests of manned space systems at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, he was approved as a flight engineer for the backup crew of the Soyuz MS spacecraft. On July 7, 2016, during the launch of the Soyuz MS, he was a flight engineer for the backup crew.

  On October 24, 2016, he passed the examination training on the ISS Russian Segment simulator, and on October 25, 2016, he passed the comprehensive test training on the Soyuz TPK simulator. On October 26, 2016, at a meeting of the Interdepartmental Commission at the Cosmonaut Training Center, the crew consisting of Oleg Novitsky, Tom Peske and Peggy Whitson was recommended to continue pre-launch training at the Baikonur Cosmodrome as the main crew.

  On October 24-25, 2016, the main and backup crews of the Soyuz MS-03 TPK completed the program of comprehensive examination training at the CTC named after Yu. A. Gagarin. On October 26, the Interdepartmental Commission at the Cosmonaut Training Center recommended the ISS-50/51 crews to continue pre-launch training at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

  Initially, the launch of the Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft was scheduled for November 16, 2016; on October 27, the Council of Chief Designers for the Russian Segment of the ISS established new date launch - November 17, 2016 at 23:20 Moscow time, from pad No. 1 (“Gagarinsky start”) of the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Taking into account the last postponement of the launch by a day, docking with the ISS is scheduled for November 20.

  On November 1, 2016, the main and backup crews of the ISS-50/51 flew to Baikonur and began pre-launch preparations. On November 2, the Soyuz MS-03 crews conducted their first training session at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The cosmonauts and astronauts underwent an introductory briefing on safety measures, tried on spacesuits and checked them for tightness, got acquainted with the placement of cargo on the spacecraft, and checked the performance of radio communication systems.

  On November 3, at the 17th site of Baikonur, the ceremony of raising the flags of the countries participating in the launch of the Soyuz MS-03 manned spacecraft and a long-term expedition to the ISS took place. The traditional event symbolizes the official start final stage preparation of astronauts for a manned launch.

  Space flight

  Launched on November 17, 2016 at 23:20:13 Moscow time from the "Gagarinsky launch" of the Baikonur Cosmodrome as a flight engineer-1 of the crew of the Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft (call sign - Kazbek) and a flight engineer of the crew of the International Space Station under the ISS-50 program / major space expeditions. The Soyuz MS-03 crew commander is Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky, flight engineer-2 astronaut (NASA) Peggy Whitson.

  The flight of the TPK took place according to a 34-orbit (two-day) rendezvous scheme with the ISS. On November 20, 2016 at 01:01 Moscow time, the Soyuz MS-03 landed at the docking port of the Rassvet Small Research Module (MIM-1) of the Russian Segment of the International Space Station. After checking the tightness of the docking and equalizing the pressure between the spacecraft and the station, the new crew boarded the ISS.

  Hobbies

  Thomas Peske speaks five languages ​​- French, English, Spanish, German and Russian. Currently studying sixth - Chinese.

  He has been fond of sports since childhood, has a black belt in judo, goes in for swimming, running, jogging,

  Before flying to the ISS in November 2016, Thomas Pesquet thought about what made his return in the Soyuz lander one of the most anticipated moments of his mission. "It's like the last round on a carousel," he said cheerfully. Together with Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky, who flew a capsule with a diameter of 2.2 m and a height of 2.1 m, the French explorer descended at a breakneck speed of 28,000 km/h! The landing took place at estimated time in the Kazakh steppe, more than three hours after their ship took off from the ISS.

  A few minutes after he landed, he exchanged a few words with Emmanuel Macron, who was at the National Center space research in Paris. Thomas Peske told the President that he was going to Cologne. The head of state made an appointment for him on June 19 and noted that all the French are proud of him.

  Already on Tuesday, the young man packed his suitcase the size of two shoe boxes. It was necessary to leave nothing there. At times the ISS is cluttered different items. It is not clear whether it will be possible to take the saxophone, which was delivered to the cargo ship on his birthday, February 27th. In addition to personal items, Soyuz sends data scientific experiments(samples or hard drives). Dirty clothes will be destroyed in the garbage truck.

  The tenth French astronaut's Proxima mission has come to an end after six and a half months in the confined space of the ISS, with a habitable area of ​​400 m3 for the astronauts. This is comparable to the size of an apartment of 130 m2 with a three-meter ceiling, in which 4-5 people live. Within 196 days (a record flight duration for a French astronaut). When summarizing your journey, former pilot Air France emphasized that what he most missed, of course, besides his family, was the feeling of freedom: different smells. He did not complain about the food ("nothing special") nor about the "camping toilet" that he had to fix on his second day on board.

  Context

  How to make space great again

  Wired Magazine 12/18/2016

  Dreams of Russians about space continue to live

  Aftenposten 28.04.2016

  Chefs conquer space

  Le Figaro 11/18/2016 But basically, Tom Pesquet has only positive emotions. This is an unforgettable feeling of starting from Baikonur, and the daily meeting of sixteen sunrises on the ISS, and life in zero gravity, as well as two spacewalks in a spacesuit in January and March for work on maintenance, during which he held the station with one hand and saw how the Earth rotated 400 km under his feet. The 39-year-old astronaut felt great in this job, which caused the admiration of his colleagues.

  “Working on the ISS is a huge team effort,” Toma said. AT total, the Frenchman from Normandy has participated in hundreds of scientific experiments, including sixty commissioned by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the French CNES. ISS passengers are real cowboys, subjected to numerous experiments in order to better understand the effect of weightlessness on the human body. But they also conduct fundamental experiments in physics, including how fluids and materials behave in zero gravity, and biology, such as growing vegetables.

  Tom talks about an experiment on a special simulator MARES (Muscle Atrophy Research and Exercise system rack), which allowed the expedition members to test the work of seven joints and evaluate the strength of the muscles associated with these joints. (During prolonged exposure to minimal gravity, many muscles weaken - ed.).

  Most of the ongoing experiments should help prepare future foreign missions in solar system. Whether it is the creation of a lunar village, a flight to one of the asteroids or to Mars. Tom Peske "dreams" of flying to the Red Planet. “But if it's not me, it doesn't matter. It is important that it be a European or even another French astronaut. “After being in space, the astronaut is more acutely aware of environmental fragility. “There are things that we can understand with the mind, but not with the heart. We do not understand how fragile the atmosphere is, that in an instant you can harm the entire planet, and that it is necessary to protect it. The planet is gem". The young astronaut spent most of his free time for photographing the Earth from different angles. He has posted hundreds of great pictures and videos of landscapes, northern lights, famous places and illuminated cities in in social networks throughout your journey. “It was my dream to be this high and it would be selfish not to tell others how awesome it was.” In his free time from experiments, Tom Peske communicated with the public, in particular on Twitter, talked a lot with schoolchildren and students.

  And the last. "I did small digression in my normal life to be in space. It was just great. I'm a little sad to leave this environment, as I don't know if I'll be able to return there one day. And at the same time, I'm happy because six months is long term. And I look forward to meeting my family and I want to plunge into life on Earth again!”

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  He has no space flight experience and is the youngest ESA astronaut.

  Education

  In 1998 he graduated from the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen.

  Entered in 2004 and graduated in 2006 flight school Air France (Air France flight school), received a transport pilot license with a permit for instrument flight.

  work experience

  In April - September 2001, he passed an engineering internship at a French-Italian aerospace company in English. Thales Alenia Space in Cannes (France).

  From October 2001 to 2002 he worked as a dynamics engineer spacecraft remote sensing company GMV S.A. in Madrid (Spain).

  In 2002-2004 he worked as a research engineer at the French Space Agency (CNES).

  Before joining the astronaut corps, he worked as an Airbus-320s pilot for Air France.

  space training

  On May 20, 2009, he was selected from 8413 candidates for the ESA astronaut corps as one of six during the fourth intake.

  On November 22, 2010, after completing the general space training course at an official ceremony held at the European Astronaut Center in Cologne, Germany, he received the ESA astronaut certificate.

  From September 13 to November 14, 2010 he had a training session at the Cosmonaut Training Center. Yu. A. Gagarin. The internship program included: the study of the Russian language, familiarization training on the Russian segment of the ISS, the Soyuz spacecraft and the Sokol spacesuit, as well as flights on a Tu-134 special aircraft for visual and instrumental observations.

  In January 2012, he underwent training to practice actions after landing in a wooded and swampy area in winter.

  In September 2013, T. Peske took part in exercises simulating work in open space, which took place on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean in the Aquarius underwater scientific and training center.

  Hobbies

  Thomas Peske speaks five languages ​​- French, English, Spanish, German and Russian. Currently studying sixth - Chinese.

  He has been fond of sports since childhood, has a black belt in judo, goes in for swimming, jogging, paragliding, mountaineering, diving, playing squash, mountain biking.

  Plays the saxophone, loves reading literature.

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  An excerpt characterizing Sand, Tom

  When a person sees a dying animal, horror seizes him: what he himself is - his essence, is obviously destroyed in his eyes - ceases to be. But when a dying person is a person, and a loved one is felt, then, in addition to the horror of the annihilation of life, one feels a rupture and a spiritual wound, which, like a physical wound, sometimes kills, sometimes heals, but always hurts and is afraid of an external irritating touch.
  After the death of Prince Andrei, Natasha and Princess Mary felt this in the same way. They, morally bent over and screwed up from the formidable cloud of death hanging over them, did not dare to look into the face of life. They carefully guarded their open wounds from offensive, painful touches. Everything: a carriage passing quickly down the street, a reminder of dinner, a girl's question about a dress that needs to be prepared; even worse, a word of insincere, weak sympathy painfully irritated the wound, seemed like an insult and broke that necessary silence in which they both tried to listen to the terrible, strict chorus that was still unsilent in their imagination, and prevented them from peering into those mysterious endless distances that opened up for a moment. In front of them.
  Only the two of them were not insulting and did not hurt. They spoke little among themselves. If they spoke, then about the most insignificant subjects. Both of them equally avoided mentioning anything related to the future.
  To admit the possibility of the future seemed to them an insult to his memory. Even more cautiously, in their conversations, they avoided everything that could be related to the deceased. It seemed to them that what they experienced and felt could not be expressed in words. It seemed to them that any mention in words of the details of his life violated the greatness and sanctity of the sacrament accomplished in their eyes.
  The incessant abstinence of speech, the constant diligent avoidance of everything that could lead to a word about him: these stops with different sides on the border of what could not be said, they put before their imagination even more clearly and clearly what they felt.

  But pure complete sadness just as impossible as pure and complete joy. Princess Mary, in her position as one independent mistress of her fate, guardian and tutor of her nephew, was the first to be called to life from that world of sadness in which she lived for the first two weeks. She received letters from relatives that had to be answered; the room in which Nikolenka was placed was damp, and he began to cough. Alpatych arrived in Yaroslavl with reports on affairs and with proposals and advice to move to Moscow to the Vzdvizhensky house, which remained intact and required only minor repairs. Life did not stop, and it was necessary to live. No matter how hard it was for Princess Mary to leave that world of solitary contemplation in which she had lived until now, no matter how pitiful and as if ashamed to leave Natasha alone, the cares of life demanded her participation, and she involuntarily gave herself to them. She settled accounts with Alpatych, consulted with Desal about her nephew and made arrangements and preparations for her move to Moscow.
  Natasha remained alone, and from the time Princess Mary began to prepare for her departure, she avoided her too.
  Princess Mary suggested that the countess let Natasha go with her to Moscow, and mother and father happily agreed to this proposal, noticing the decline every day. physical strength daughter and considering it useful for her and a change of place, and the help of Moscow doctors.
  “I’m not going anywhere,” Natasha answered when this proposal was made to her, “just please leave me,” she said and ran out of the room, with difficulty holding back tears not so much grief as annoyance and anger.
  After she felt abandoned by Princess Mary and alone in her grief, Natasha most of the time, alone in her room, sat with her feet in the corner of the sofa, and, tearing or kneading something with her thin, tense fingers, stared with a stubborn, motionless look on what the eyes rested on. This solitude exhausted, tormented her; but it was necessary for her. As soon as someone came to her, she quickly got up, changed the position and expression of her eyes, and took up a book or sewing, obviously impatiently waiting for the departure of the one who interfered with her.

  SAND Tom

  ESA Astronaut (France)

  experience space flights does not have

  MARITAL STATUS: not married.

  EDUCATION:

  • In 1998 he graduated from the Lyceum. Pierre Corneille in Rouen (France).
  • In 2001 received a master's degree in design and management space technology at the National Aerospace Institute (Ecole Nationale Superieure de I'Aeronautique et de I'Espace) in Toulouse (France). Last year training conducted in Polytechnic School Montreal (Canada) under the exchange program for students studying aeronautics and astronautics.
  • In 2006 he graduated from the French Pilot School, where he received the ATPL-IR (Airline Transport Pilot License) transport aviation pilot license.

  WORK EXPERIENCE:

  • From April to September 2001, he did an internship as an engineer at Thales Alenia Space in Cannes (France).
  • Since October 2001 he worked as a dynamics engineer spaceships at GMV S.A. in Madrid, Spain.
  • From 2002 to 2004 he worked as a research engineer in the French space agency(CNES), where he dealt with issues of autonomy space missions.
  • In 2002 he was a representative National Center Space Research (CNES) in the International Advisory Committee on Space information systems data transmission (CCSDS).
  • In 2004, being an amateur pilot, he was selected to train Air France pilots. Since 2006, he has worked as an Airbus A320 pilot for Air France. Having flown more than 2,300 hours on passenger aircraft, he became an Airbus A320 Inspector Instructor and Crew Resource Management Instructor.
  • He was selected as an astronaut by the European Space Agency in May 2009. In November 2010 he completed general space training. He worked as a flight director at the Mission Control Center in Munich (Germany). Besides, in European center astronauts was responsible for developing plans for future cooperation with new partners, in particular, with colleagues from China.
  • Tom Peske participated in training in extreme conditions CAVES organized by ESA and in the SEATEST 2 experiments conducted by NASA in the underwater science laboratory.
  • From November 2013 to September 2015, he was trained as a member of the ISS-45/46/EP-18 backup crew as a Soyuz TMA-18M flight engineer and an ISS EP-18 flight engineer.
  • Since September 2015, he has been trained as a member of the ISS-48/49 backup crew as a Soyuz MS flight engineer and an ISS-48/49 flight engineer.

  Since July 2016, he has been undergoing training as part of the ISS-50/51 prime crew as a Soyuz MS-03 flight engineer and an ISS-50/51 flight engineer.

  MEMBERSHIP IN ORGANIZATIONS:

  • French Aviation Association;
  • American Institute Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).

  HOBBIES: basketball, running, swimming, squash, mountain biking, surfing, skiing, climbing, diving, skydiving, traveling, playing the saxophone, reading. He has a black belt in judo.

  Tom Peske(French Thomas Pesquet; born February 27, 1978, Rouen, Seine-Maritime department, Upper Normandy region, France) - ESA astronaut.

  Currently in space flight. Launched on November 17, 2016 as a flight engineer for the crew of the Soyuz MS-03 manned transport spacecraft and a flight engineer for the crew of the International Space Station under the ISS-50/51 program of the main space expeditions. He is the youngest ESA astronaut.

  Education

  In 1998 he graduated from the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen.

  In 2001 he received a Master of Science degree in the development and management of space technology in high school aeronautics and space research (fr. Institut suprieur de l "aronautique et de l" espace) in Toulouse. He spent the last year of study at the Polytechnic School in Montreal (Canada) under the exchange program for students studying aeronautics and astronautics.

  In 2004, he entered and in 2006 graduated from the Air France flight school, received an ATPL-IR transport pilot license (Airline Transport Pilot License) with a permit for instrument flight.

  work experience

  In April - September 2001, he passed an engineering internship at a French-Italian aerospace company in English. Thales Alenia Space in Cannes (France).

  From October 2001 to 2002, he worked as an engineer for the dynamics of remote sensing spacecraft in the company English. GMV S.A. in Madrid (Spain).

  In 2002-2004 he worked as a research engineer at the French Space Agency (CNES), where he dealt with issues of space mission autonomy. In 2002, he was the representative of the National Center for Space Research (CNES) in the International Advisory Committee on Space Information Data Systems (CCSDS).

  In 2004, being an amateur pilot, he was selected for the training of Air France pilots. Before joining the astronaut corps, he worked as an Airbus-320s pilot for Air France. He has more than 2,300 flight hours in passenger aircraft and has become an Airbus A320 Inspector Instructor and Crew Resource Management Instructor.

  space training

  On May 20, 2009, he was selected from 8413 candidates for the ESA astronaut corps as one of six during the fourth intake.

  On November 22, 2010, after completing the general space training course at an official ceremony held at the European Astronaut Center in Cologne, Germany, he received an ESA astronaut certificate. for developing plans for future cooperation with new partners, in particular, with colleagues from China.

  From September 13 to November 14, 2010, he had a training session at the Cosmonaut Training Center named after Yu. A. Gagarin. The internship program included: learning the Russian language, familiarization training on the Russian segment of the ISS, the Soyuz spacecraft and the Sokol spacesuit, as well as flights on a Tu-134 special aircraft for visual and instrumental observations.

  In January 2012, he underwent training to practice actions after landing in a wooded and swampy area in winter.

  In September 2013, T. Peske took part in exercises simulating work in open space, which took place on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean in the Aquarius underwater scientific training center.

  Since November 2013, he has been training as a member of the ISS45/46/EP-18 backup crew as a Soyuz TMA-18M flight engineer and an ISS EP-18 flight engineer. In 2014 he was appointed Soyuz TMA-18M backup flight engineer. Since September 2015, he has been undergoing training as part of the ISS-48/49 backup crew as a Soyuz MS flight engineer and an ISS-48/49 flight engineer.

  On February 11, 2016, as part of the crew, together with Oleg Novitsky and Peggy Whitson, he underwent a training session on actions in the event of an emergency landing in a wooded and swampy area in winter. The crew members successfully coped with all the tasks: they built two types of shelters (a single-pitched hut and a wigwam), indicated their location for the search and rescue forces with the help of a light-signal cartridge and a fire, and provided medical assistance to the "wounded" colleague at the stage of transition to the meeting place with rescuers.