Thomas Pesquet at Le Bourget

ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet at the ESA Pavilion, Paris Air and Space Show, 19 June 2015.

On 17 March 2014, Thomas was assigned to a long-duration mission on the International Space Station. He will be leaving our planet for six months November 2016 as a flight engineer for Expeditions 50 and 51, returning in May 2017.