Thomas Pesquet is an inspiring character. In the small collection “Les romans-doc Science” published by Bayard Jeunesse, you will learn more about him!
Like many children, Thomas Pesquet dreamed of becoming an astronaut. Like few people, however, he will realize this dream. At 38, after years of preparing for this moment, he finds himself at the heart of the International Space Station.
The novel recounts his journey, from his engineering studies in Toulouse, his beginnings as a pilot to his selection among the 8,000 candidates who did everything to board the ISS. You will thus learn what the life of an astronaut is like, how he prepares himself before going into space and also what are all the efforts necessary to get there.
This short novel is divided into 6 chapters very accessible from 8-9 years old:
- A childhood dream
- A long preparation until the programming of its mission in space in 2014
- On the way to space with takeoff aboard the Soyuz spacecraft until joining fellow astronauts in the ISS
- 196 intense days with the adaptation of the physical and mental to life in weightlessness
- feet on Earth with the return to the Soyuz capsule and the pedagogy around the first mission
- the second mission, the experiments with the blobs, the link established with the classes of the schools that follow him…
- From 9 years old
- Author: Pierre Oertel
- Illustrator: Erwann Surcouf
- Publisher: Bayard Youth
- 48 pages
- Price: 6.50 €
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