In engineering schools, the vocation for space does not weaken, in the wake of the French spitation career.
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By passing the door of the workshop of the Estaca engineering schools, one would believe in the workshop of Professor Sunflower. The tools are everywhere, wheels, cartons, computers are disseminated in each corner. A boy puts on a neoprene combination in the middle of a boat shed, while only three meters from him, a small group activates around a cars at the Futurist arrondis. Further, a joyful bunch of bikers examines the V4 of an ageless Honda.
This is where students from the school “new mobilities” work and have fun developing their skills. Everything is on the agenda: aerodynamics, consumption, resistance of materials, mechanical, electronic, computer … Suddenly, the engine of a motorcycle screams, pushed to more than 10,000 tours-minute, twist the eardrums. Chloe Pasquier, 23, do not cute. Asked:
– “The noise does not bother you to work?”
– “No, in noise, it’s rather our team that holds the rope.”
– “What do you do?”
– “A rocket.”
“He moved the field of possible”
While the Splataute Thomas Pesquet left the command of the International Space Station to return on Earth on November 9, the future “aerospace” engineers retain their eyes directed to the sky with the firm idea that their turn will come. “Thomas Pesquet passed, for a generation of French engineering students, the spatial exploration of a distant dream to concrete. It was built like us, in a high school, a preparatory class, an engineering school . For us, he moved the field of the possible “, testifies Benjamin Wurgler, 21, in 4 e year at ESTACA. Becoming astronaut was a child’s dream. “I kept it.” He continues.
If the career of Thomas Pesquet, a graduate of the Higher Institute of Aeronautics and Space, Isae-Supaéro, is a source of inspiration, the passion of its successor potentials is often built well in upstream. “I have always been fascinated by astronomy, says Alysée Lecleve, 20, in 3 e year of aerospace engineering at IPSA, the place of land in the immensity of the ‘Universe and what man will be able to realize it. There are so many things to discover, “the young woman is enthusiastic. Same for Hugo da Silva, in 4 e year at ESTACA: The space has conquered it by surprise, child. “My mother took me to the Planetarium of the City of Science in Paris, I saw the stars, the immensity of the universe, there was a waouh effect.” His path is traced.
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