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(English) ESA astronaut class of 2022: Astro Chat with Marco Sieber and Claude Nicollier

(English) In Episode 11 of this ESA Explores podcast series, we chatted with Switzerland’s first and latest ESA astronauts, Claude Nicollier and Marco Sieber.

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International Space Station

(English) 2001: a space odyssey for the first European woman on ISS

(English) On this day in 2001, former ESA astronaut Claudie Haigneré became the first European woman to visit the International Space Station.

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Podcasts

(English) Road to the stars: Training for the Moon at LUNA

(English) In the first episode of the new ESA Explores series, "Road to the stars," we chat with ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer about the LUNA facility, Europe's Moon on Earth.

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Moon

(English) Gaming to the Moon

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Astronaut portrait - Sławosz Uznański. Credits: ESA - A. Conigli
Sławosz Uznański

(English) Sławosz Uznański training at the European Astronaut Centre

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International Space Station

(English) Fly! Expanding space opportunities

(English) Space missions come with a unique set of challenges – while these are hurdles that every astronaut must overcome, space agencies had not, up to this day, interrogated their impact on an astronaut with a physical disability. 

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Moon

(English) As the dust settles – first sandbag tapping at LUNA

(English) Exciting developments are unfolding in Cologne, Germany, where ESA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) are establishing a worldwide unique lunar analogue facility – LUNA. This week, the first lunar sandbag tapping —opening the bags to distribute the sand— marked an important step in preparing the hall for future Moon mission testing.

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