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International Space Station

Luca Parmitano

(English) Beyond: one year since Luca’s landing

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Podcasts

(English) New podcast episode: entering the Space Station era

(English) The latest episode of ESA’s ESA Explores Time and Space podcast series is out now, taking listeners beyond SpaceLab to the start of the International Space Station era.

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Spacewalking

(English) A complex choreography

(English) After more than a year of preparation and plan refinement, crew and ground teams are ready for a new era of connectivity between Europe and the International Space Station.

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International Space Station

(English) Business as (not so) usual on the Space Station

(English) As any scientist will confirm, a huge part of doing science is being attentive. Making sure experiments run smoothly. Observing outcomes. Fine-tuning settings to the tiniest degree. With many different experiments running simultaneously on the Space Station, 400 kilometres above the earth, at a speed of roughly 28 000 km/h, attention to detail becomes an invaluable virtue.

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Astronauts

(English) Thomas and Matthias talk training in Astro Chat series

(English) ESA astronauts Thomas Pesquet and Matthias Maurer are training for upcoming missions to the International Space Station. Follow their journey in our Astro Chat series.

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Matthias Maurer

Video: Matthias trains at NASA’s JSC

ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer has started pre-assignment training at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, USA. He brings viewers along on his journey to date in the first in a series of vlogs. Though the date and spacecraft for Matthias’ mission to the International Space Station are yet to be set, he is the […]

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Thomas Pesquet

Thomas Pesquet returns to Earth

ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet landed on the steppe of Kazakhstan today with Russian commander Oleg Novitsky in their Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft after six months in space. Touchdown was at 14:10 GMT after a four-hour flight from the International Space Station.

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Thomas Pesquet

Proxima – CNES experiments

CNES has developed seven experiments that Thomas Pesquet is performing for his Proxima mission aboard the ISS.

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