Posted on Friday May 21st, 2021 by julien
Like an infant adjusting to the new world, ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet is relearning how to move around the weightless environment of space. His cradle is a familiar place though – this is Thomas’s second mission to the International Space Station, the orbiting lab where he where he broke records for science during his first […]
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Posted on Friday May 21st, 2021 by Nadjejda
Watch ESA’s real-time coverage of the total lunar eclipse live on Wednesday, 26 May, including fascinating insights into Earth’s enigmatic satellite, the Moon.
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Posted on Thursday May 20th, 2021 by Ally
Aspiring astronauts now have until 18 June 2021 to submit an application for ESA’s astronaut selection. The three-week extension comes as ESA welcomes Lithuania as a new Associate Member state.
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Posted on Thursday May 20th, 2021 by Laura
At ESA's European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne, Germany, the Spaceship EAC initiative brings a team of young professionals and researchers together to advance the future of human and robotic space exploration. It is a lofty challenge that is gathering momentum, with new Spaceship sites in Toulouse, France and the UK.
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Posted on Thursday May 6th, 2021 by Ally
In a new episode of ESA's ESA Explores podcast, host Ally Koehler chats with ESA Senior Flight Surgeon Sergi Vaquer Araujo about how he became a space doctor as well as the medical aspects of ESA's 2021 astronaut selection.
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Posted on Tuesday May 4th, 2021 by Laura
As humans strive to return to the lunar surface and travel even farther into space, new solutions are needed to provide astronauts with ongoing access to oxygen, food and water. The team at Spaceship EAC at ESA’s European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany, is researching critical subsystems that could support water recycling, energy storage and In-situ Resource Utilisation (ISRU) in space.
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Posted on Thursday April 22nd, 2021 by Annelies Van Dam
In a new podcast series of ESA Explores, experts discuss 20 years of science on the International Space Station and look to a bright future, as ESA celebrates 20 years since the first ESA astronaut boarded the orbital outpost. On 19 April, 2001, ESA astronaut Umberto Guidoni was launched to the International Space Station. Since […]
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Posted on Wednesday April 14th, 2021 by julien
Updated with new times and new target date for launch as weather conditions are unfavourable for the original 22 April launch date. French ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet is returning to the International Space Station on his second spaceflight. Called ‘Alpha’ the mission will see a European astronaut launch on a US spacecraft for the first […]
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