Posted on 27 April 2022 by Nadjejda
(English) Crew Dragon spacecraft Freedom, carrying ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti and her NASA colleagues Kjell Lindgren, Robert Hines and Jessica Watkins, docked to the International Space Station at 01:37 CEST Thursday 28 April.
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Posted on 26 April 2022 by Nadjejda
(English) Follow the live coverage as the SpaceX Crew Dragon docks to the International Space Station, marking the beginning of ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti’s Minerva mission.
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Posted on 22 April 2022 by julien
(English) Half a century after the Apollo 15 and 16 lunar landing missions, observations made by their scientific instruments still have a lot to say about the Moon and the Universe.
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Posted on 19 April 2022 by Ally
(English) ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA on Monday, where she will spend a final week in quarantine before Crew-4 is launched to the International Space Station.
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Posted on 25 March 2022 by Laura
(English) The sky, its celestial bodies and the vastness of space beyond has fascinated humankind for thousands of years. It is therefore no coincidence that ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer took inspiration from the Nebra Sky Disc for his Cosmic Kiss mission patch.
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Posted on 18 March 2022 by Ally
(English) ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer is scheduled to perform his first spacewalk next week, stepping outside the International Space Station on Wednesday 23 March alongside NASA’s Raja Chari. Watch all the action live on ESA Web TV.
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Posted on 2 March 2022 by Ally
(English) In May 2021 it was announced that ESA astronaut and Dragon Crew-4 mission specialist Samantha Cristoforetti would serve as Commander of International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 68a.
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Posted on 18 February 2022 by Ally
(English) Saturday 19 February marks 100 days since ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer was launched to the International Space Station for his first mission, Cosmic Kiss. He launched on a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft with NASA astronauts Kayla Barron, Raja Chari and Tom Marshburn as a member of Crew-3. But even before he was launched to space, he was subject to scrutiny for science.
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