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So it's, I think it's quite, quite unique to fly with somebody with so much experience.

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Since there always has to be a certain number of astronauts manning the station at all times, one of the main aspects of the mission was to transport a new team to the station and bring back some members of the previous team back to Earth.

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Shortly afterwards, I did a third one to repair the robotic arm of the station. This arm plays a very important role in the ongoing expansion of the station as well as in the deployment of solar panels.

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Polytechnique is a school whose multidisciplinary, very high scientific level curriculum is invaluable.

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It's, I mean, for me, it's the same as training with my crewmembers. We share the same first part of the flight. We all go together. It's the most critical part of the flight, the ascent.

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I think that witnessing ecological problems visible from space is one of the new and essential roles of astronauts.

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I had been here five years already, training very hard, learning about the systems, the shuttle, the station systems. But, everything really became real when I started to work with them.

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Especially when I first really started to work with Kenneth and Franklin, who had been in space already. And so, they were able to talk about space and tell me a few things about how things would really happen.

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And, you run also video because to fly this arm, you're relying mostly on some external camera views that may be coming from the arm itself or from the station.

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And, I think, as a kid, I had a strong motivation to do something of my life. And, I think that's the strongest motivation I really got. And, that came obviously from my parents and my grandparents.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Astronaut

Born: January 6th, 1963

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