Astronaut Thomas Pesquet: ‘Earth is just a big spaceship with a crew. It needs looking after’

A stint in space showed the ESA astronaut Earth’s fragility – and convinced him international cooperation is urgently neededAs divisions between them widen on Earth, space must be where countries show they can work together for a common good, France’s best-known astronaut has said in a powerful plea for international cooperation beyond the final frontier.“From up there, the Earth seems so small, so tiny, so … the same,” said Thomas Pesquet, who spent 196 days