French lecturer reaches for stars with astronaut application

Matthieu Pluvinage poses in his office at the ESIGELEC engineering school where he teaches, in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, France, Jun 4, 2021. ROUEN, France: In a break from his job teaching engineering to students in France's Normandy region, Matthieu Pluvinage put the finishing touches on an application for a new job: Astronaut.

He has a masters degree in science, he speaks English and French, he reckons he is fit enough to pass the medical, and he has a passion for space."There are things that make me think, 'I want to do this! It's cool!'," said Pluvinage in his office at the ESIGELEC engineering school near Rouen, 140km west of Paris, where he teaches.

Matthieu Pluvinage, a candidate to the European Space Agency astronaut selection, poses in his office at the ESIGELEC engineering school where he teaches, in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, France, Jun 4, 2021. Displayed on a computer monitor was his job application, still being drafted. He has until Jun 18 to submit it, and will know the result in October.

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