Posted on Friday October 25th, 2024 by Laura
In Episode 11 of this ESA Explores podcast series, we chatted with Switzerland’s first and latest ESA astronauts, Claude Nicollier and Marco Sieber.
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Posted on Friday December 22nd, 2023 by Laura
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 Wednesday December 20th, 2023 by Laura
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 Friday March 5th, 2021 by julien
In late 2020, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) finalised an agreement to collaborate on the Gateway, with ESA committing to contributing habitation and refueling modules and enhanced lunar communications. This agreement expands the long-time International Space Station partnership with the ESA and NASA to Artemis. The Gateway will provide a sustainable, reusable, and reliable […]
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