Posted on Monday October 21st, 2024 by Laura
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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Posted on Friday October 11th, 2024 by Michaela Krupova
Meet IMPACT, the game that combines science with resource management and city-building elements. Your main goal is to create a lunar base, one building at a time, while contributing to real science research that will help us go back to the Moon. During this decade and the next, humankind will return to the Moon for […]
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Posted on Wednesday August 7th, 2024 by Marie Deschamps
NASA astronauts Tracy Dyson and Jeanette Epps operated from space a team of robots on Earth in the third session of the Surface Avatar experiment, a collaboration between ESA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR). The robot team, consisting of ESA’s Interact rover, and DLR’s Rollin’ Justin and robot dog Bert, worked in a simulated […]
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Posted on Friday August 2nd, 2024 by Marie Deschamps
Project astronaut Sławosz Uznański began his training at the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne on 1 September 2023. Over the past months, he has been diligently preparing for his future space mission. Here’s a sneak peek into what these preparations looked like. Back to the classroom Astronaut training includes many hours of theoretical classes […]
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Posted on Wednesday July 31st, 2024 by Nadjejda
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 July 19th, 2024 by Laura
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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Posted on Wednesday July 17th, 2024 by Laura
In Episode 10 of this ESA Explores podcast series, we spoke to Sławosz Uznański, an ESA project astronaut from Poland, about his training and preparations for a future mission to space.
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Posted on Friday June 28th, 2024 by Laura
The team of ESA’s Spaceship EAC initiative revived their LEGO-building skills and 3D-printed the famous bricks from lunar regolith and meteor dust, providing a glimpse into how future construction on the Moon might look.
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