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Advanced life support training for Alpha with Thomas Pesquet
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- Title Thomas Pesquet Alpha mission training - Advanced life support training for Alpha with Thomas Pesquet
- Length 00:09:51
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In preparation for his second mission to the International Space Station, ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet is training to be ready for launch. His second six-month mission is called Alpha and will see Thomas launch as part Crew-2 on the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft with NASA astronaut Megan Behnken and Shane Kimbrough and Japanese astronaut Aki Hoshide.
This video shows scenes from Thomas Pesquet training for the Suture in Space experiment at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany. This experiment will fly during the Alpha mission.
Each kilogram launched into space is very expensive. For years, oxygen on the Space Station was extracted from water brought from Earth. As the Station welcomes larger crews at a time, thanks to new launch vehicles, ESA has designed a new system to recycle half of the carbon dioxide into oxygen and reduce the amount of water that must be shipped into space.
Thomas will work with ESA’s Life Support Rack that can produce oxygen for up to three astronauts. These operations are part of ESA’s goal to create a closed life-support system, including water recovery and food production, that will eventually enable astronauts to stay in space indefinitely without costly resupply missions from Earth.
Advanced life-support systems are a huge step for human spaceflight as space agencies prepare to explore farther from Earth, such as to the Gateway, a staging post around the Moon for deep space missions.
More: www.esa.int/acls
More on ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet and his Alpha mission at www.esa.int/MissionAlpha