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Thomas Pesquet, here during a meeting on Franco-American cooperation in space, at NASA headquarters in Washington, November 30, 2022.
UKRAINE – On the occasion of the first anniversary of the conflict in Ukraine this Friday, February 24, Thomas Pesquet posted on his Twitter account a photo seen from the sky of Kiev, taken before the start of the Russian invasion.
“Not all anniversaries are good: today marks the first year of conflict in Ukraine. Thinking of all those affected by this tragedy. Let’s make it stop. Here is a huge photo (actually a collage) of kyiv that I took before the war, with an entirely zoomable here »wrote the French astronaut who had taken this shot from the International Space Station, where he was on a mission from April 23 to November 8, 2021.
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Not all anniversaries are good: today marks one year of conflict in Ukraine. Thinking of everyone affected by this… https://t.co/eZw5AuDmsb
— Thomas Pesquet (@Thom_astro)
During his stay on the ISS, Thomas Pesquet had taken the habit of publishing on his social networks photos seen from the sky of deserts, mountains, glaciers, coasts, marshes, cities or countries that make up our planet.
On April 27, 2021, he inaugurated this long series with a snapshot of Normandy, where he is from. In commentary, the astronaut kindly made fun of the “raging” who always see the rain in the West. “The Station’s trajectory always goes from west to east: a chance for my native Normandy, under the sun as always (whatever the haters will say)”he had written with several emojis.
He had this same photographic routine during his first trip to the ISS at the end of 2016.
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