The star astronaut, in a relationship with engineer Anne Monte, returned to the France Inter microphone on Wednesday about his choice not to have children, which he said was particularly motivated by “feminist” beliefs.
Astronaut Thomas Pesquet released his book on Wednesday, October 18 My life without gravity, where he tells his story in a very personal way. Lea Salame guest on set 7/10On France Inter’s morning show on the same day, she spoke in more detail about her life as a couple and balancing it with her distinguished career.
“You assume you don’t have children, why? Because the passion for space conquers everything,” the journalist asked. “It would have been an easy decision for me, it would have rested entirely on my partner’s shoulders, that’s right. I wasn’t going to stop my work, no one was going to let me stop my work, and so because I was never going to be there, it was going to be his job to stop everything and take it on himself, and I didn’t think that was fair.” – then he answered. Lea Salame hastened to ask him. “So it’s mostly of a feminist persuasion?” The answer from the interested person. “Yeah, maybe, yeah.”
The 45-year-old star astronaut has been in a relationship for several years with engineer Ann Motte, to whom he dedicates his work. She lives and works in Rome, where she is responsible for livestock policy at FAO, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, while Thomas Pesquet lives in Cologne, Germany. He is the European astronaut with the greatest experience of extra-vehicular trips, the only Frenchman to complete two long missions in space in 2016 and 2021, and the first of our compatriots to command the International Space Station. He is now waiting to hear if the next mission to the moon will be proposed before 2030.
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Source: Le Figaro
