This mission was the project of a decade's work.

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I've been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the No-Fly Zone.

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So it's, I think it's quite, quite unique to fly with somebody with so much experience.

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It's only when you're flying above it that you realize how incredible the Earth really is.

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Polytechnique is a school whose multidisciplinary, very high scientific level curriculum is invaluable.

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The last thing, and the only one that you cannot physically train for, is the psychological preparation.

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I think that witnessing ecological problems visible from space is one of the new and essential roles of astronauts.

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And everything stopped quite rapidly because I knew that nobody in Europe was able to go to space. It was the privilege of being either American or Russian.

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We also had to bring with us some desired scientific equipment over to the station as well as assemble new machines. For that, I had to conduct two space walks.

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And, you run also video because to fly this arm, you're relying mostly on some external camera views that may be coming from the arm itself or from the station.

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