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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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Science

(English) Stable foams and unstable muscles – a month of European Space Station science

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International Space Station

(English) European link to historic launch

(English) This weekend two unassuming LAN cables from Europe will witness spaceflight history as they accompany NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the International Space Station on the first crewed SpaceX Crew Dragon flight.

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Moon

(English) Astronaut urine for building a Moon base

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Mars

(English) How to survive confinement – tips from a ‘marsonaut’

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(English) Spaceship EAC: Augmented reality for astronauts

(English) Media design student Paul Njayou from Germany is undertaking his Master’s internship at ESA’s European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne, Germany. Over the past six months he’s been working on a project to determine how augmented reality (AR) could help astronauts operate equipment and experiments on the International Space Station, and even farther from our planet, by overlaying information onto their surroundings.

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Astronauts

(English) At home with ESA

(English) Efforts are underway around the world to stop the spread of coronavirus, which means many of us are confined to our homes. We're unable to visit loved ones and in some cases, unable to go outside at all. Not being able to go about our normal daily lives, coupled with the risk of contracting this new and highly contagious virus, brings up all kinds of emotions. So we asked astronauts and experts who have experienced long periods of isolation or quarantine for their tips to help us through.

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