Posted on 9 January 2024 by Nadjejda
(English) All astronauts go through a quarantine period before flying to space. For decades, space travellers had to isolate to ensure that they are not sick or incubating an illness before their trip to space.
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Posted on 22 December 2023 by Laura
(English) ESA astronaut candidates Sophie Adenot, Rosemary Coogan, Pablo Álvarez Fernández, Raphaël Liégeois, and Marco Sieber, alongside Katherine Bennell-Pegg from the Australian Space Agency suited up in scuba gear, plunging into NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) for spacewalk training familiarisation.
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Posted on 20 December 2023 by Laura
(English) Last week, members of ESA’s astronaut class of 2022 embarked on their first overseas field trip. They visited NASA’s facilities at the Johnson Space Centre (JSC) in Houston, Texas, USA, to get familiar with the environment where they will spend a significant part of their training once assigned to a mission.
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Posted on 8 December 2023 by Laura
(English) This special bonus episode of our Time and Space series on the ESA Explores podcast marks a special occasion—the 40th anniversary of Spacelab's first flight, the first European-built space laboratory, and ESA’s first human spaceflight mission.
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Posted on 30 November 2023 by Marie Deschamps
Ci spiace, ma questo articolo è disponibile soltanto in English.
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Posted on 23 November 2023 by Laura
(English) The ESA astronaut class of 2022 was selected exactly a year ago. Most members of the astronaut reserve made their first visit as a group to the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne, Germany this week.
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Posted on 10 October 2023 by Nadjejda
(English) Patches are an integral part of every astronaut mission. Space agencies print out a cloth reproduction that astronauts wear during their flight, a tradition that started sixty years ago.
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Posted on 18 September 2023 by Laura
(English) Sławosz Uznański, ESA project astronaut from Poland, gives a “thumbs-up” from the heart of the action inside the Columbus training mockup at ESA's European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany.
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