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Mining lunar minerals with terrestrial fungi

Posted on Wednesday June 15th, 2022 by Ally

Filamentous fungi may not be the first thing most people think of when it comes to mining, but they could be the answer to construction on the Moon. João Figueira, a Master’s student with the University of Porto, Portugal, has been working with ESA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Aerospace Medicine, to uncover how a unique biomining method could mould Europe’s next steps in space.

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Moon

Bake the Moon

Posted on Tuesday May 17th, 2022 by Nadjejda

A Moon bread recipe challenge is set to heat up ovens across Europe in the countdown to the first Artemis mission to lunar orbit – one that gets its temperature and power under control by the European Service Module.

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Forward to the Moon: interactive publication

Posted on Friday May 13th, 2022 by julien

As Artemis sets its sights on the Moon, powered by the European Service Module (ESM), all eyes will again turn to the night sky. This interactive publication encourages us to look up at our natural satellite and think about how the Moon has inspired us, from Ancient Greece to the 21st  century, to develop our understanding […]

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First space moves for the European Robotic Arm

Posted on Thursday May 5th, 2022 by Nadjejda

It was time to wake up. Slowly but surely, one of the elbows of the robot stretched out in its new space home. The move had been rehearsed many times on the ground, but this was a first for the 11-metre-long robotic spacewalker.

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Matthias Maurer

Watch Matthias Maurer return to Earth with Crew-3

Posted on Thursday May 5th, 2022 by Ally

After almost six months aboard the International Space Station, ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer is coming home. Watch all the action, from undocking to splashdown, live on ESA Web TV channel 2.

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Samantha Cristoforetti

Minerva mission begins as Samantha arrives at Space Station

Posted on Wednesday April 27th, 2022 by Nadjejda

Crew Dragon spacecraft Freedom, carrying ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti and her NASA colleagues Kjell Lindgren, Robert Hines and Jessica Watkins, docked to the International Space Station at 01:37 CEST Thursday 28 April.

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Samantha Cristoforetti

Watch live: Crew-4 docking to the International Space Station

Posted on Tuesday April 26th, 2022 by Nadjejda

Follow the live coverage as the SpaceX Crew Dragon docks to the International Space Station, marking the beginning of ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti’s Minerva mission.

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Moon

Fresh look at vintage lunar X-ray spectrometry data

Posted on Friday April 22nd, 2022 by julien

Half a century after the Apollo 15 and 16 lunar landing missions, observations made by their scientific instruments still have a lot to say about the Moon and the Universe.

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