François Picard is joined from Toulouse by Thomas Pesquet, a European Space Agency astronaut, to debate the Artemis II mission. Drawing on his expertise in orbit, Pesquet says Artemis II needs to be seen not solely as a technological milestone, however as a part of a longer-term effort to increase human presence past Earth. He notes that area exploration combines a basic human impulse to discover with the scientific objective of conducting analysis in environments that can not be replicated on Earth.
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