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Alpha: scenes from ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet’s return to Earth and Europe
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- Title Alpha: scenes from ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet’s return to Earth and Europe
- Released: 10/11/2021
- Language English
- Footage Type TV Exchanges
- Copyright ESA
- Description
After 199 days in space, ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet left the International Space Station together with alongside NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur and JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, marking the end of his second six-month mission known as Alpha.
Thomas and crew splashed down on 9 November 2021 at 03:33 GMT (04:33 CET). From there Thomas flew to Cologne, Germany, where he is being monitored by ESA’s space medicine team as he readapts to Earth’s gravity at ESA’s astronaut centre and German Aerospace Centre’s ‘Envihab’ facility.