Astronauts
Tim Peake to focus on outreach and education
Posted on Wednesday June 26th, 2019 by Ally
British ESA astronaut Tim Peake has announced he will take a two-year leave of absence from the Agency starting 1 October 2019.
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Astronauts
Samantha dives back into operations
Posted on Monday June 10th, 2019 by Ally
ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti will swap her spacesuit for dive gear this month as commander of a 10-day international research and exploration mission to the Atlantic Ocean floor.
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Alexander Gerst
Return to Star City
Posted on Monday February 4th, 2019 by Ally
ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst returned to Star City, Moscow, this week where he attended a traditional welcome home ceremony alongside NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor and Russian cosmonaut Sergei Prokopyev at the Yuri Gagarin Training Center (GCTC).
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Alexander Gerst
Back to Earth – crew support
Posted on Monday January 7th, 2019 by Ally
From coordinating the development of space food to accompanying astronauts into quarantine and managing family travel budgets, the role of crew support at ESA is never boring. Unit lead Romain Charles describes it as: “facilitating the daily lives of astronauts so they can focus on their missions”. We asked the team to tell us more about this vital and varied role.
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Alexander Gerst
Alexander’s second ride back to Earth
Posted on Thursday December 20th, 2018 by julien
After six months in space ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst, NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergei Prokopyev returned home from the International Space Station.
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Matthias Maurer
Matthias Maurer graduates as ESA astronaut
Posted on Tuesday September 25th, 2018 by Ally
German citizen, Matthias Maurer, is now officially ESA’s newest astronaut, after graduating during a formal ceremony at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany, on 25 September 2018.
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Welcome to outer space
Posted on Thursday July 20th, 2017 by julien
In the six months that I spent on the International Space Station, it was difficult to find the words or take a picture that would accurately describe the feeling of being in space. Working with Google on my latest mission, I captured Street View imagery to show what the ISS looks like from the inside, and share what it’s like to look down on Earth from outer space.
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Thomas Pesquet
Thomas Pesquet returns to Earth
Posted on Friday June 2nd, 2017 by julien
ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet landed on the steppe of Kazakhstan today with Russian commander Oleg Novitsky in their Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft after six months in space. Touchdown was at 14:10 GMT after a four-hour flight from the International Space Station.
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