{"id":29733,"date":"2017-04-12T16:00:51","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T15:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.fasej.org\/en\/?p=29733"},"modified":"2017-04-21T23:12:35","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T22:12:35","slug":"thomas-pesquet-announces-the-writing-contest-winners-from-the-iss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.fasej.org\/en\/thomas-pesquet-announces-the-writing-contest-winners-from-the-iss\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Pesquet announces the Writing Contest Winners from the ISS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>On Wednesday, 12 April 2017 at the International Space Station (ISS), European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Thomas Pesquet announced the two winners of the first writing contest from space that was inspired by <em>The Little Prince<\/em>: Paul-Louis Drouffe, 13 years old, and Manon Tendil, 24 years old.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper fourthree\" style=\"width:420px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_xC0AseF6_r4\"><div id=\"lyte_xC0AseF6_r4\" data-src=\"\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/xC0AseF6_r4\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/xC0AseF6_r4\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/xC0AseF6_r4\/0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"295\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:420px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI wish to warmly congratulate Paul-Louis and Manon for their imagination,\u201d declared the French astronaut who is currently taking part in the Proxima mission via a video in which he revealed the winners of this unique contest in French, which was launched from space on 2 January 2017.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29730\" style=\"width: 679px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29730\" class=\"size-large wp-image-29730\" src=\"http:\/\/dev.fasej.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/02-Thomas_PESQUET-1024x513.jpg\" alt=\"@ Esa\/Maxppp, a bord de L'iss, Fev 2017 Thomas Pesquet a bord de L'Iss - Pix taken by Thomas Pesquet. Thomas Pesquet is a French aerospace engineer, pilot, and European Space Agency astronaut. From 19 November 2016, Pesquet is part of the International Space Station as a crew member for Expedition 50 and Expedition 51. (MaxPPP TagID: maxnewsworldfour216405.jpg) [Photo via MaxPPP]\" width=\"669\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dev.fasej.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/02-Thomas_PESQUET-1024x513.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dev.fasej.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/02-Thomas_PESQUET-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dev.fasej.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/02-Thomas_PESQUET.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 669px) 100vw, 669px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-29730\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credits : Thomas Pesquet ESA\/NASA<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">More than 8,400 young poets aged less than 25 years old and originating from 78 different countries replied to the astronaut\u2019s invitation to imagine \u201cthe Little Prince on a new planet, where he will have another surprising encounter\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Two Texts Read from Space by the Astronaut<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29726\" src=\"http:\/\/dev.fasej.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/03_Manon_Tendil.jpg\" alt=\"03_Manon_Tendil\" width=\"960\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dev.fasej.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/03_Manon_Tendil.jpg 960w, https:\/\/dev.fasej.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/03_Manon_Tendil-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dev.fasej.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/03_Manon_Tendil-460x295.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A fourth-year law student in Strasbourg, Manon Tendil was the winner in the French category. \u201cIn her text, the Little Prince meets a crying character, whose work consists of taking care of the world\u2019s sorrows,\u201d described Thomas Pesquet, for whom \u201ca profound poetry, between melancholy and hope, emerges from this text\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A secondary school student of the Lyc\u00e9e Fran\u00e7ais (French School) in Hong Kong, Paul-Louis Drouffe wrote Thomas Pesquet\u2019s favourite text in the International category. \u201cHis text describes the encounter between the Little Prince and a great gardener who cultivates stars with a lot of sensitivity,\u201d explained the astronaut.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-29728\" src=\"http:\/\/dev.fasej.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/04-Photo_jusry_concours_PESQUET-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"04-Photo_jusry_concours_PESQUET (1)\" width=\"669\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dev.fasej.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/04-Photo_jusry_concours_PESQUET-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dev.fasej.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/04-Photo_jusry_concours_PESQUET-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dev.fasej.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/04-Photo_jusry_concours_PESQUET-1.jpg 1802w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 669px) 100vw, 669px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Make your Words Travel in Space <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A jury of experts in the fields of aerospace, science and literature made a preliminary selection of 10 texts (five submitted from France and five from the rest of the world), from which Thomas Pesquet chose two laureates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Named \u201cMake your Stories Travel in Space\u201d, the contest was organised by the European Space Agency, the Antoine de Saint-Exup\u00e9ry Youth Foundation, the Labo des Histoires, the Cit\u00e9 de l\u2019Espace (Space City) of Toulouse and the Institut Fran\u00e7ais (French Institute). The 10 shortlisted texts are published on the following website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.missionproxima.com\/concours-ecriture\">www.missionproxima.com\/concours-ecriture<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Photo :<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>01- Thomas PESQUET on board the ISS<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>02- Manon TENDIL<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>03- The members of the jury<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, 12 April 2017 at the International Space Station (ISS), European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Thomas Pesquet announced the two winners of the first writing contest from space that was inspired by The Little Prince: Paul-Louis Drouffe, 13 years old, and Manon Tendil, 24 years old. \u00a0 &nbsp; \u201cI wish to warmly congratulate Paul-Louis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29731,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.fasej.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.fasej.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.fasej.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.fasej.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.fasej.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29733"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/dev.fasej.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29754,"href":"https:\/\/dev.fasej.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29733\/revisions\/29754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.fasej.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.fasej.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.fasej.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.fasej.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}