Paris (AFP)
Astronaut Thomas Pesquet will be present every week on French public radio Fip during his second space mission which is due to begin on April 22, when he takes off for the International Space Station (ISS).
Music radio has set up a series of meetings with the astronaut, a claimed fan of Fip, throughout the six months of the "Alpha" mission, she said in a statement.
Fip will inaugurate this special device on April 23 with a program which will retrace in music "the 24 hours of flight which enabled Thomas Pesquet and the crew of Crew-2 to join the ISS, from take-off to docking".
Once aboard the ISS, "every day, on Twitter, Thomas Pesquet will publish a new track from his personal playlist" in collaboration with the radio, a total of 180 tracks "to share with listeners and Internet users" his trip .
And each week the astronaut "will talk about a title and will entrust us in a message broadcast on the air with stories or anecdotes around pieces which will evoke moments of his life on Earth or aboard the ISS", announces Fip.
The radio, which celebrates its 50 years, had said last month to prepare several playlists for the astronaut.
They will be three in number: "Dreaming (in) space, inspired by the view of the Earth from the ISS, Working (in) space, for moments of concentration and experimentation, and Running (in ) space, to enhance their daily life ", details Fip.
Listeners will be able to discover them every month on the radio website "as well as every first Monday of the month" during special evenings.
Thomas Pesquet, recently appointed the first French captain of the International Space Station (ISS), is due to fly on April 22 from Florida aboard a private American spacecraft, Space X's Crew-2 Dragon capsule, with three other astronauts (the Americans Megan Mc Arthur and Shane Kimbrough, and the Japanese Akihiko Hoshide).
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