2024-09-05 04:30:12
Can we imagine coming out of our room from the attic and going to our breakfast cooked on the floor? It’s impossible, except in especially acrobatic dreams. And yet, this is the daily life of astronauts living on the International Space Station (ISS).
Through new videos, filmed between 2018 and 2020, the participants in the Artemis mission show their days in orbit between the banal routine, even if it is constantly challenged by the absence of gravity, and experiments in biology and medicine, of which they are both authors and testers.
A set of excerpts recorded by seven future candidates for lunar exploration, and compiled by filmmakers Ashley Duong, Félix Lajeunesse and Paul Raphaël, compose a collection and a moving journal.
A feeling of unity
The description of their daily lives is combined with moments of deep reflection on the fate of the world, and the people who live in it. In the eyes of astronauts Victor Glover, Nick Hague, Christina Koch, Anne McClain, Jessica Meir, Andrew Morgan and David Saint-Jacques, the Earth is often taken with cold. This small “blue marble”, photographed for the first time by the crew of the Apollo 17 mission in 1972, evoked a feeling of solidarity among these space travelers.
Forced to live in the extreme conditions and privacy required by long-term missions, like Jessica Meir’s one-year mission, bonds between astronauts also grow, making the ISS a place of it is familiar. “Being here is like camping in your own backyard»says astronaut David Saint-Jacques. But if the Station is truly envisioned as a primary training ground, many more goals are coming.
Once you understand how camping works, you will have to leave your own garden and go to the mountains, first the Moon, then “Everest”: landing on Mars.
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