Posted on Thursday 23 June 2016 by Ally
ESA astronaut Tim Peake, NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and Russian Soyuz commander Yuri Malenchenko landed safely today in the Kazakh steppe after a three-hour ride in their Soyuz spacecraft. They left the International Space Station at 05:52 GMT at the end of their six-month stay on the research complex.
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Posted on Friday 26 February 2016 by Ally
Experts at ESA’s European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne, Germany, train and prepare astronauts for their missions into space. Find out how the next generation is contributing to ESA's work to explore even farther through the Spaceship EAC initiative.
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Posted on Tuesday 17 November 2015 by julien
ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen is back on Earth and his mission over, but his bones might still be feeling the (lack of) pressure. Laurence Vico from the University of St Etienne, France, explains the ‘Early detection of Osteoporosis in Space’ study.
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Posted on Friday 18 September 2015 by Ally
ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen returned from his Iriss mission to the International Space Station on 12 September 2015.
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