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Thomas Pesquet, here during a press conference at the Brussels Planetarium in Belgium, June 27, 2022.
SPACE – The next manned flights of the Artemis mission to the Moon sharpen conspiratorial minds on social networks, bringing back to light the theory according to which the Apollo mission was only a stage and the Man would never have walked on the moon.
An interview with Thomas Pésquet on the France 2 newscast on Sunday August 28, – on the eve of the launch of la capsule Orion unmanned, finally postponed at the last moment– was thus recently used in a video montage to make believe that the astronaut had confessed that a human had never set foot on the Moon.
“When I look at the Moon at night, it still gives me a little shiver, because it’s not the same thing to say ‘is it humanly possible to go there?’. The Moon, you have to see that there is a factor of 1,000. It’s 1,000 times further than the Space Station. There is yet another dimension to space travel”declares Thomas Pesquet in his interview, before continuing with this passage which will be voluntarily repeated and slowed down by the editor, who calls for “listen to the end” : “We are really going to go very far, very far, very far, as far as no human being has ever gone from Earth. »
???? Astronaut ???????? Thomas #Pesquet makes it clear to us that no human being has ever been on the ????… https://t.co/VdWoUnTEbW
— ????????FrenchPatriot????????⚜️✝️✡️☪️ (@Jul_Taxi)
Below, the original excerpt from the JT, unedited:
@idrissaberkane Here is the passage without editing and without cutting. https://t.co/hHT8Nw54Uu
— Crypto₿ ????☠️ (@CryptoBXPR)
Technically, Thomas Pesquet is right: according to NASA, the trajectory that the manned Orion capsule will follow will be elliptical, which will take it 65,000 kilometers beyond the Moon, much further than the Apollo missions. These had only moved a maximum of 300 kilometers from the Moon, remember Tf1info.fr.
#Pesquet explains that the #Artemis2 mission will take humans farther than any mission has… https://t.co/DbbmdkUKUP
— Guillaume HB (@Guillaume_HB)
Exasperated by this video montage wanting to make him say what he never said, and which has been shared and viewed a lot on social networks, Thomas Pesquet put things right this Wednesday, August 31, via a series of tweets .
“But why do we have to waste precious time on this again: of course yes, the human went to the moon during the Apollo missions. And we’ll be back”says the astronaut in the preamble, before developing his point in a dozen additional messages (to read below).
“And yes, my emotions don’t matter, but it pains me, after all I’ve done for 10 years, my two missions, the thousands of extra hours of work to share them and explain science and technology. , to have to do this tweet today”he laments in particular.
And yes it doesn’t matter my emotions but it pains me, after everything I’ve done for 10 years, my two… https://t.co/J4XT3FK7IY
— Thomas Pesquet (@Thom_astro)
And no, we are not going to demonstrate here that the moon landings did indeed take place, because it has already been done MILLIONS of… https://t.co/5m8M7v5WSy
— Thomas Pesquet (@Thom_astro)
And above all it denies all the (real) incredible work that thousands of people are doing around the world for sp… https://t.co/tdeFG9nhHO
— Thomas Pesquet (@Thom_astro)
While there is nothing easier for a guy than to arrive hidden behind his keyboard and tell stories… https://t.co/DYFEUyN3IG
— Thomas Pesquet (@Thom_astro)
On the one hand, there are people who explain things for real, like @gourmaud_jamy and hundreds of others, and… https://t.co/eJWWBNhAzp
— Thomas Pesquet (@Thom_astro)
In short, that’s all on this subject because it’s not my field and I have a lot of work. We’re going to go back to spend all n… https://t.co/AHlalJBFdd
— Thomas Pesquet (@Thom_astro)
See you on the moon in a few years ????????
— Thomas Pesquet (@Thom_astro)
See also on Le HuffPost : Mission Artemis: a postponed launch, but ambitious objectives