ESA Astronaut Discusses Life In Space With Hugo Decrypte Vol 0.0 One

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1:18 Speaker 4: And this is is a PO. How do you hear me?

1:24 Speaker 1: Is a PO?

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1:26 Speaker 1: I hear you learn and clear. However, how about me?

1:32 Speaker 4: Thanks Sophie, we hear you learn and clear.

1:35 Speaker 3: Well.

1:35 Speaker 4: Now transition to French and I give the four.

1:43 Speaker 3: Hi.

1:45 Speaker 5: Just to get started, I just wanted to thank you for taking time.

1:49 Speaker 3: From the is s S.

1:52 Speaker 5: I know you're very busy at the moment, and it's great just to have an exchange with you. I think you can talk on familiar terms to see the two form a friendly form of address. First of all, thanks for taking your time to answer my questions.

2:13 Speaker 3: Thank you very much. You go.

2:14 Speaker 5: It's just great for me to be able to join you today. You're an I can for so many young people who follow the news and it's great what you're doing. Thank you for you and your whole team. So let's get started with a really great discussion. I've been looking forward to it, really happy to exchange with you again.

2:37 Speaker 3: The first time that i've had.

2:39 Speaker 5: A video system like this to do the interviews in the past, and so unusual to see your hair floating up above you like that. It's good to get started. Are we doing something? You're doing something with so many so many people dream about doing and the competition to get into that position.

2:58 Speaker 3: How do you how do.

3:01 Speaker 5: You feel on your side when you're up there in the state safety, having made your mark to get up there in the first place.

3:13 Speaker 1: You could thank.

3:15 Speaker 3: Good questions you ask me.

3:20 Speaker 5: I've been dreaming about this since some of the little girls to become an astronaut. Lots of people have that sort of a dream, even if they seems a bit crazy. It means you can escape, get into a kind of imaginary world. But my philosophy has always been to.

3:37 Speaker 3: Remain anchored in happiness on a daily.

3:40 Speaker 5: Basis and whatever the final destination. My main thing is to appreciate life at each stage. And that was all the part about us coming to become an astronaut. And I looked at you all sorts of biography. It's concerning the role, and my philosophy was to get clear from every sade.

4:01 Speaker 3: The big step that was good safety.

4:03 Speaker 5: This part, I think that's important, not to put pressure on yourself.

4:09 Speaker 3: I think that's concerns a lot of people.

4:11 Speaker 5: I needed to avoid this pressure, applying pressure to myself and that's how I got.

4:17 Speaker 3: Here, really, and I'm up here in the clouds now. It's absolutely crazy. It's great.

4:24 Speaker 5: I still haven't got over it in a way. So maybe the second party question, so the fact that I'm the second French woman up here.

4:41 Speaker 3: It's incredible to be in the faith now.

4:44 Speaker 5: And whether it's the second, the third, the fifteenth, or the hundreds or whatever, it doesn't make any difference to the main thing is I'm here now, and way has been opened for women, for French women as well, and all women who want to work have this rather original trade or whole profession if you like.

5:04 Speaker 3: And this is a question a lot of people are arresting.

5:10 Speaker 5: Themselves if we need to help women have great confidence in themselves.

5:17 Speaker 3: And at the same time, I hope that's in the future.

5:19 Speaker 5: Future generations in particular won't be asking that sort of question.

5:23 Speaker 3: It won't be relevant anymore. First question, I want just to ask you.

5:28 Speaker 5: We're going to be talking about what you're doing in the ISA and so on, but just to get started, the.

5:33 Speaker 3: Ambition has been going on for a number of months. Now, what's the.

5:38 Speaker 5: First thing that really surprised you or impressed you when you were righted up there doing your first eight days. Yeah, there are a lot of things you should know that when you leave the earth in a rocket, even if you're prepared for it technically, the asternaut is highly prepared technically, you're not prepared for this theory that such evil everything is surprising in fact, so just one thing.

6:07 Speaker 3: It's really difficults it's almost unfair for all of those things that you come across, But what is magical is the ted earth from above her. And it's impressive to float.

6:21 Speaker 5: In three dimensions that he used all of the faith around you and have no longer have a notion of up and down and floats in all direction and everything that goes with that proof.

6:33 Speaker 3: It's really it's tasty. It's crucial that I think it is almost to that work, and even good of.

6:42 Speaker 5: Tweeting up on the is quite a different experience. And this is what I really love, which really brought me into and this really impressed me too.

6:53 Speaker 3: You feel really not.

6:56 Speaker 5: Far off, You feel connected, very close to the team traineder. We remained very close to them were connected by radio and so on. But it's a huge joy for me. But what really impressed me was the euphoria right from the start, and I really wanted to take full advantage of it. And yesterday we brought in to use the team there after the International Place station and we saw you the first time without enough and this reminded me of the very birth reactions which I had and it silence done you.

7:35 Speaker 3: It's so beautiful. And he was there and he was going, he said.

7:38 Speaker 5: Wow, wow, friends, Well it's so impressive. It just so difficult to describe. It's such a beautiful but invasive beauty.

7:52 Speaker 3: I want to come back on that. We'll talk about your experience afterwards. Made a lot of people. You're so far away, How do you prepare for this? How can you prepare for it?

8:09 Speaker 5: So have you managed it all? Do you find yourself alone? You feel alone?

8:13 Speaker 3: How have you managed all of this?

8:16 Speaker 1: Astonishingly?

8:20 Speaker 5: I understand that you could ask that question when you don't form part of the defective but in fact we're not at the time of the space pioneers who connected by radio an occasional educasional moments for the kind of amateur radio. Now we can have a video conference that have video. It's just like on Earth.

8:42 Speaker 3: We could be really connected, so there's no worry from that.

8:47 Speaker 5: Perspective, I don't feel solitude, as you suggest in your question. You're so well connected.

8:57 Speaker 3: It's an emotion that I don't feel. From time to time.

9:01 Speaker 5: I know it's not far away when people live things on Earth. For example, you've have gone through the heat ways, the massive heath way, and I'm not the experiencing that's here.

9:14 Speaker 3: These are formed of internection.

9:16 Speaker 5: Finally, but in all events, there's no real solitude because you feel close.

9:23 Speaker 3: To the Earth all the things, and strangely you move away from the Earth in a rocket. We can see the Earth as a whole, and oddly enough you.

9:33 Speaker 5: Feel close, you feel more human because you form It feels hard of that humanity that inhabit.

9:42 Speaker 3: The planet Earth together.

9:48 Speaker 5: The fact that you can drop the microphone, let go of it and it doesn't fall, it's quite astone. It's pretty practically. In fact, it's pretty handy.

10:03 Speaker 3: It's just a question I wanted to ask you on the I s st you.

10:07 Speaker 5: Observe these effects of climate change with the the weather spells that we've been having recently, for example, Yes, no doubt about it. We see that, we see these spells, these changes of weather changes, and we feel powers. I'm thinking especially if the er on sea when we had a crisis ten years ago, and when we look back at what happened ten years ago, it's not the same.

10:38 Speaker 3: It's it's changed completely since then. And we can see the lot of a lot of lakes, this area has been greatly reduced. You can just see masters of sediment in their place.

10:55 Speaker 5: And actually taught on the island that was was swallowed up because got.

11:00 Speaker 3: A whole number of isolent piles in the Pacific, and we had in.

11:03 Speaker 5: More particular, we thought it very clearly. We know we just see the surface and we could see this have been flooded. And we see fires for fires too, so we see a lot of things from.

11:16 Speaker 3: Up here from the eye set.

11:23 Speaker 5: You've conducted a number of experiments, scientific experiments in space.

11:28 Speaker 3: Some of them a bit obscure, a bit unusual in that you've.

11:33 Speaker 5: Been conducting at the moment and conducting over the next few days. Could you explain to us what these experiments can actually consist of and what it means in.

11:44 Speaker 3: Terms of progress in Congo.

11:47 Speaker 5: Did experience a huge variety of scientistic scientific experiments. I just wanted to add somethings to what you've been saying. Any questions, We don't contact these these experiments on board.

11:58 Speaker 3: We worked with the team.

12:00 Speaker 5: We're really working together to conduct these scientific experiments. As far as I said, it's just a huge variety of what was what really struck me emotionally personally, like a lot of French people and a lot of people on Earth.

12:16 Speaker 3: Person not just me personally, but by people flow to me, but rest into cancer.

12:21 Speaker 5: We do a lot of cancer canter resert here and micro gravity helps it to have to understand behavior that you can't isolate on the Earth, for example, the introduction of medicine and how the proteins the crystals and don't interact. In fact, there'll be pure the proteins and crystals because gravity works desformed them.

12:47 Speaker 3: They work before crystallization.

12:49 Speaker 5: So there's a lot of medical research here and for me that's tremendous that it's a wonderful choice to be able to truth contribute to medical advances like this and help human beings on Earth. We also do technology demonstrate the projects. An example of a striking example here on board the station here we recycle ninety eight percent of water, which is great. You should be aware that this technology to technology which will a bit of us and used on Earth to recycle water. Sous look at the fabulous things following up on that.

13:29 Speaker 5: We also have research on transforming CO two into ato and store.

13:35 Speaker 3: So there's a whole.

13:36 Speaker 5: Number of things that questions that arise on Earth where we find solutions here because these space is a hostile environment, and when you're in a hostile environment, you have to find solutions. So through all of these different experiments of the technological nature, the main thing is how to help space exploration in the tomorrow, to go on the Moon, to go into marsin on and to get the machines in order to conduct those very remote experiences. In the latest news, I assume you're following up on this at the moment in the State station.

14:13 Speaker 5: But in the State we're talking about a human return to the Moon. Two questions on that, how can you explain this return to the past inner way? And is it something which seems to you to be a realistic thing to under think?

14:33 Speaker 3: Yes, not only it.

14:35 Speaker 5: Seems to be completely realistic for me, but it's also an adventure which brings together so many people, and I find that great.

14:44 Speaker 3: I'm a great fan of state expiration in all events, having.

14:51 Speaker 5: Projects like that, the specific scientific technological natures that bring together the different and we all look together in the same direction and move have technologies, move forward, make progress, and to work together to march forward together. You need the enthusiasm that we had for our teams. For example, when you seed the photos sent.

15:19 Speaker 3: Down by the human being.

15:23 Speaker 5: You need the projects like this that can bring together the different nations and we need that on a Yeah, it's great. More completely, the missions that are so complex, so difficult to conduct, the countries need to get together to manage to succeed in that, and it's a question of creativity finding solutions and what you find the down the solution. You have to succeed in finding the technologies which are going to make them possible on Earth afterwards. So I think that's great. I could go on proud.

16:07 Speaker 5: We followed recently the of June you had to leave the base station briefly, Could you tell us about that episode how you experienced it, because really this is something.

16:24 Speaker 3: Something people have questions about on Earth.

16:27 Speaker 5: Again, what I can tell you is that it's highlights that the power of the training that we did.

16:36 Speaker 3: We repeated it tens and tens, if not hundreds of times, and when it happened, we.

16:44 Speaker 5: Remained very calm in contact with deeds Light director at Houston, and he said, we just have to implement the such and such a procedure, so in twenty minutes, fit and that is going to happen and you are going to take refuge in the Dragons base capsule. While it's why we get over.

17:05 Speaker 3: It, So we moved straight into action modes.

17:09 Speaker 5: We didn't ask questions and knew exactly what we had to do within the team, and we went about things a very calm, rational way.

17:21 Speaker 3: These were almost reflect gestures.

17:23 Speaker 5: That we implemented and we need to test to check out that we hadn't forgotten any particular stage in the plan, but we were astonishingly to read. And it's only afterwards that when it was picked up by the media that we really realized that it's been considered the emergency situation. But we took it very calmly because it's something which we've been We've been repeating tens and tens of signs over and over again, so now you can join the I and however surprising it made seam. We remained so calm, so three and I was scared.

18:08 Speaker 5: And it was just towards the end when the like director said you could join the I S again.

18:14 Speaker 3: We thought, but I didn't want to go back down to work again. It was released, yeah, and I really wanted to continue with the mission, so.

18:28 Speaker 1: Couldn't.

18:29 Speaker 5: So when we had that call, it was I thought. We were really bothered about that. It might bring an end to the mission. This question related to the relation to time on the I said, yeah, there for several months.

18:52 Speaker 3: How do you relate to time?

18:54 Speaker 5: The sun is setting several times a day, so you have a different relationship to time.

19:00 Speaker 3: How do you apprehend that? How do you understand that? On the IE set? And the first thing you'll do when you get back to Earth, what will it be? Have you already thought about it? Yes?

19:13 Speaker 5: Okay, great, good question. I could talk for hours about it. I'll try and be priticise, keep it talking. Sixteen night and day tweriod, sixteen sunrises, sixteen sunset.

19:29 Speaker 3: You have windows, you don't have windows in some of the modules.

19:33 Speaker 5: And we're very occupied anyway, very busy. We don't really take we lose notion to what it's like between nights and day on the earth, and we don't have windows all.

19:47 Speaker 3: Around us anyway.

19:48 Speaker 5: But time goes by very quickly because we're so busy, and we're based on the Greenwich Meridio's two hours of difference of France at the moment.

19:58 Speaker 3: So we started seven and in seven in the morning.

20:01 Speaker 5: And at thirty in the evenings, and we do a debriefing and we're really occupied throughout the day.

20:08 Speaker 3: So it really is it is keeping it very busy.

20:10 Speaker 5: And the second part of the question is what would I like to do.

20:13 Speaker 3: When I get back to work.

20:16 Speaker 5: Generally, my philosophy is to concentrate on.

20:19 Speaker 3: What you have rather than what you missed.

20:23 Speaker 5: Otherwise you're always running after something that you have got in front of you. I think I look for moments of happiness that everywhere I can come across them.

20:34 Speaker 3: That's essential.

20:35 Speaker 5: And if I reason like that, it's because when I get back to work, microgravity is going to I'm going to miss it.

20:44 Speaker 3: But anyway, I'll go.

20:45 Speaker 5: To discovering a whole number of little sore just walking on draft which in bare feet.

20:53 Speaker 3: Reaping up with my friends, obviously.

20:55 Speaker 5: Eating fresh fruit, eating a breadth on a Brittany hand cake, for example, and having my seat on the earth. But to discover things again, discover them over again to be an absolutely magic period for it for me when I do get back down, because I'll find so much happiness in little moments and the thing unusual on I wish you the very happiest return to Earth. So when you get back here, thank you very much.

21:24 Speaker 3: For your time.

21:27 Speaker 5: I could talk with you for hours, but I think that telps us to see what it's like what you're doing up there, and I wish you a very happy return to it.

21:40 Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you so much for your time. Well, thank you, thank you very much, and well done. You go. Stick Trips to the entire team. It was a real pleasure.

21:52 Speaker 5: And I'm not going to do a spin here and I'm going to do a double spins of summer so the whatever couple, but this is a double one.

22:05 Speaker 3: There you go. Thank you very much, Thank you, Sophie.

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