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(English) Lunch with the Moon

Posted on 21 May 2021 by Nadjejda

(English) Watch ESA’s real-time coverage of the total lunar eclipse live on Wednesday, 26 May, including fascinating insights into Earth’s enigmatic satellite, the Moon.

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Astronauts

(English) New deadline for astronaut applicants as ESA welcomes new Associate Member

Posted on 20 May 2021 by Ally

(English) Aspiring astronauts now have until 18 June 2021 to submit an application for ESA’s astronaut selection. The three-week extension comes as ESA welcomes Lithuania as a new Associate Member state.

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(English) Spaceship friendship: forward to the Moon together

Posted on 20 May 2021 by Laura

(English) At ESA's European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne, Germany, the Spaceship EAC initiative brings a team of young professionals and researchers together to advance the future of human and robotic space exploration. It is a lofty challenge that is gathering momentum, with new Spaceship sites in Toulouse, France and the UK.

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Podcasts

(English) ESA Explores podcast: the space doctor is in

Posted on 6 May 2021 by Ally

(English) In a new episode of ESA's ESA Explores podcast, host Ally Koehler chats with ESA Senior Flight Surgeon Sergi Vaquer Araujo about how he became a space doctor as well as the medical aspects of ESA's 2021 astronaut selection.

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(English) Spaceship EAC: recycling water on the Moon

Posted on 4 May 2021 by Laura

(English) As humans strive to return to the lunar surface and travel even farther into space, new solutions are needed to provide astronauts with ongoing access to oxygen, food and water. The team at Spaceship EAC at ESA’s European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany, is researching critical subsystems that could support water recycling, energy storage and In-situ Resource Utilisation (ISRU) in space.

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