Posted on Tuesday January 9th, 2024 by Nadjejda
All astronauts go through a quarantine period before flying to space. For decades, space travellers had to isolate to ensure that they are not sick or incubating an illness before their trip to space.
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Posted on Friday December 22nd, 2023 by Laura
ESA astronaut candidates Sophie Adenot, Rosemary Coogan, Pablo Álvarez Fernández, Raphaël Liégeois, and Marco Sieber, alongside Katherine Bennell-Pegg from the Australian Space Agency suited up in scuba gear, plunging into NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) for spacewalk training familiarisation.
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Posted on Wednesday December 20th, 2023 by Laura
Last week, members of ESA’s astronaut class of 2022 embarked on their first overseas field trip. They visited NASA’s facilities at the Johnson Space Centre (JSC) in Houston, Texas, USA, to get familiar with the environment where they will spend a significant part of their training once assigned to a mission.
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Posted on Friday December 8th, 2023 by Laura
This special bonus episode of our Time and Space series on the ESA Explores podcast marks a special occasion—the 40th anniversary of Spacelab's first flight, the first European-built space laboratory, and ESA’s first human spaceflight mission.
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Posted on Thursday November 30th, 2023 by Marie Deschamps
The structural model of the communications system that ESA is supplying for NASA’s Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) on the Gateway recently completed a vibrations test to check it will withstand the intense shaking during the launch. The HALO Lunar Communication System (HLCS) is an advanced piece of technology that will enable communication between the […]
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Posted on Thursday November 23rd, 2023 by Laura
The ESA astronaut class of 2022 was selected exactly a year ago. Most members of the astronaut reserve made their first visit as a group to the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne, Germany this week.
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Posted on Tuesday October 10th, 2023 by Nadjejda
Patches are an integral part of every astronaut mission. Space agencies print out a cloth reproduction that astronauts wear during their flight, a tradition that started sixty years ago.
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Posted on Monday September 18th, 2023 by Laura
Sławosz Uznański, ESA project astronaut from Poland, gives a “thumbs-up” from the heart of the action inside the Columbus training mockup at ESA's European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany.
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