The INSIDER Summary:
- French astronaut Thomas Pesquet takes delightful photos of life on the International Space Station.
- It seems like a ton of fun up there.
- Astronauts celebrate holidays together, eat food as it floats in the air, and enjoy the cosmic views.
Becoming an astronaut isn't easy. Applicants need to be at the top of their fields to even qualify for training. If chosen, they must acquire extensive knowledge of orbital mechanics, navigation, vehicle design, languages, and other subjects. Only then will they be assigned to a crew and start learning about their particular mission.
Individuals selected for spaceflight have put in years of hard work and dedication to earn their spots, so they deserve to have a little fun once they leave the atmosphere.
Thomas Pesquet, a French astronaut with the European Space Agency and crew member with Expeditions 50 and 51 on the International Space Station, does a fantastic job capturing the unadulterated joy that he and his fellow astronauts feel while living out their dreams and living in weightlessness.
Of course they don't spend ~all~ of their time chomping food out of the air and pretending to be superheroes. Only, you know, some of it.
Here are some of his delightful photos of life on the ISS.
The International Space Station (ISS) is a spacecraft the size of a football field where astronauts live and conduct research in space.
French astronaut Thomas Pesquet is a flight engineer and one of five crew members there now on Expedition 51.
Peggy Whitson is the commander, making her the first woman to command two ISS expeditions, and the record holder for the most days in space of any NASA astronaut.
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