François Picard is joined from Toulouse by Thomas Pesquet, a European Space Agency astronaut, to discuss the Artemis II mission. Drawing on his experience in orbit, Pesquet says Artemis II should be seen not only as a technological milestone, but as part of a longer-term effort to expand human presence beyond Earth. He notes that space exploration combines a fundamental human impulse to explore with the scientific goal of conducting research in environments that cannot be replicated on Earth.
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