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Popular science writer Marion Montaigne brings us a year in the life of astronaut Thomas Pesquet. For twelve months, Montaigne followed the day-to-day to life of the French astronaut, who in 2008 became one of the lucky few selected -from among 8,000 hopefuls – to take part in the European Space Agency’s human spaceflight program. Taking us from NASA’s training center in Houston and Star City in Moscow, to the site where Soyuz rockets are launched in Baikonur (Kazakhstan), this is an entertaining and meticulously detailed account of life as a modern astronaut which also reflects on the bigger picture of human space exploration