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Proxima was the name given to ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet’s six-month mission on the International Space Station. He worked on the weightless research laboratory and ran scientific experiments for hundreds of researchers on Earth. Thomas left our planet on 17 November 2016 from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on a Soyuz rocket with NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson and commander-cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky and returned to Earth on 15 May 2017. This image was taken on 13/01/2017 by Thomas Pesquet during the Proxima mission and was published on social media with the following comments in English and French. "Here’s one for the conspiracy theorists who believe we are somewhere in a hangar, on a fake Space Station ;) Oh wait they will probably say that picture is fake too… ;)" "Voilà pour les fans de la théorie du complot persuadés qu’on est dans un hangar sur Terre… À moins que cette photo soit truquée aussi ;)"