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(English) LUNA: Moon on Earth

Posted on Tuesday 21 December 2021 by Laura

(English) Humankind's ambition to explore our steady orbital companion, the Moon, sustainably is accelerating around the globe. Many agencies are preparing for or already operating new robotic and human missions to the Moon, most prominently NASA’s Artemis programme that will fly astronauts to the Moon again about 50 years after Apollo. All international partners, including the European Space Agency (ESA), must prepare for upcoming lunar missions and a facility planned next to ESA's European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne, Germany, will recreate Moon conditions on Earth like never before.  

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(English) Spaceship EAC: turning up the heat on lunar dust

Posted on Thursday 12 August 2021 by Laura

(English) “Heat for one minute. Then, remove from the microwave and leave to rest before constructing your lunar habitat.” This, or something similar, could be part of an astronaut’s instructions in the future, as microwaves are used to process lunar regolith on the Moon.

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(English) Spaceship EAC: 3D printing with lunar dust

Posted on Monday 29 March 2021 by Laura

(English) Aurélie Hand, of France, is a materials engineering student currently completing a 13-month Master’s internship at ESA's European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany. As part of Spaceship EAC's advanced manufacturing team, she is using different simulants to test 3D printing technology for sustainable living on the Moon.

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(English) Spaceship EAC: Dissolving moon dust’s secrets

Posted on Thursday 28 January 2021 by Laura

(English) What if, on the Moon, we could simply extract all the oxygen we need directly from the ground? This is the question asked by Austrian master's student of chemistry and materials science Sebastian Rohde during his nine-month internship in the Spaceship EAC team at ESA's Astronaut Centre in Cologne. And it yielded some interesting results.

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Spaceship EAC: 3D printing parts for the Moon

Posted on Wednesday 15 July 2020 by Laura

Swedish master student Billy Grundström is undertaking a 6-month internship at ESA’s European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne, Germany, where he’s 3D printing parts from simulated Moon dust and a bio-additive in preparation for lunar living.

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