The International Space Station with ESA’s Columbus laboratory flies 400 km high at speeds that defy gravity – literally. At 28 800 km/h it only takes 90 minutes for the weightless laboratory to make a complete circuit of Earth. Astronauts working and living on the Station experience 16 sunrises and sunsets each day.
Posted on Wednesday, der 23. October 2024 by Nadjejda
(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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Posted on Wednesday, der 7. August 2024 by Marie Deschamps
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Posted on Wednesday, der 31. July 2024 by Nadjejda
(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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Posted on Friday, der 17. May 2024 by Marie Deschamps
Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf Amerikanisches Englisch verfügbar.
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Posted on Wednesday, der 16. August 2023 by Nadjejda
(English) The European Robotic Arm (ERA) completed its first two years in space with the successful installation of a radiator and an airlock for the International Space Station.
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Posted on Wednesday, der 19. July 2023 by Nadjejda
(English) Every week spent in a different place, in a different time zone. A myriad of training lessons, countless instructors, and never-before-seen technology. A life between airports, the new faces, the non-stop learning… and no time for lunch.
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Posted on Wednesday, der 10. August 2022 by Marco Trovatello — 1 min read
(English) The International Space Station Multilateral Coordination Board met Friday, July 29, to discuss the status of the combined work aboard the microgravity laboratory.
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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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