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(English) Mining lunar minerals with terrestrial fungi

Posted on Wednesday, der 15. June 2022 by Ally

(English) 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

(English) Bake the Moon

Posted on Tuesday, der 17. May 2022 by Nadjejda

(English) 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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Moon

(English) Forward to the Moon: interactive publication

Posted on Friday, der 13. May 2022 by julien

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.

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International Space Station

(English) First space moves for the European Robotic Arm

Posted on Thursday, der 5. May 2022 by Nadjejda

(English) 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

(English) Watch Matthias Maurer return to Earth with Crew-3

Posted on Thursday, der 5. May 2022 by Ally

(English) 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

(English) Minerva mission begins as Samantha arrives at Space Station

Posted on Wednesday, der 27. April 2022 by Nadjejda

(English) 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

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

Posted on Tuesday, der 26. April 2022 by Nadjejda

(English) 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

(English) Fresh look at vintage lunar X-ray spectrometry data

Posted on Friday, der 22. April 2022 by julien

(English) 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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