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Crew-2 Astronaut Spotlight: Thomas Pesquet, Mission Specialist Thomas Pesquet was selected as an ESA - European Space Agency astronaut in May 2009. Crew-2 will be his second spaceflight. He also served as a flight engineer for Expeditions 50 & 51 on the International Space Station, and completed two spacewalks. During a portion of this mission, Pesquet will serve as space station commander. He’ll be the fourth European and the first astronaut from 🇫🇷 France to serve in this role! His mission i

A Tour of Alpha Centauri | NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory FriendsofNASA.org: In humanity's search for life outside our Solar System, one of the best places to look is Alpha Centauri, a system containing the three nearest stars beyond the Sun. A new study that has involved monitoring of Alpha Centauri for more than a decade by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory provides encouraging news about one key aspect of planetary habitability. It indicates that any planets orbiting the two brightest stars