Posted on Friday June 28th, 2024 by Laura
The team of ESA’s Spaceship EAC initiative revived their LEGO-building skills and 3D-printed the famous bricks from lunar regolith and meteor dust, providing a glimpse into how future construction on the Moon might look.
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Posted on Thursday August 12th, 2021 by Laura
“Heat for one minute. Then, remove from the microwave and leave to rest before constructing your lunar habitat.” This, or something similar, could be part of an astronaut’s instructions in the future, as microwaves are used to process lunar regolith on the Moon.
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Posted on Thursday May 20th, 2021 by Laura
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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Posted on Tuesday May 4th, 2021 by Laura
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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Posted on Monday March 29th, 2021 by Laura
Aurélie Hand, of France, is a materials engineering student currently completing a 13-month Master’s internship at ESA's European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany. As part of Spaceship EAC's advanced manufacturing team, she is using different simulants to test 3D printing technology for sustainable living on the Moon.
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Posted on Thursday January 28th, 2021 by Laura
What if, on the Moon, we could simply extract all the oxygen we need directly from the ground? This is the question asked by Austrian master's student of chemistry and materials science Sebastian Rohde during his nine-month internship in the Spaceship EAC team at ESA's Astronaut Centre in Cologne. And it yielded some interesting results.
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Posted on Wednesday July 15th, 2020 by Laura
Swedish master student Billy Grundström is undertaking a 6-month internship at ESA’s European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne, Germany, where he’s 3D printing parts from simulated Moon dust and a bio-additive in preparation for lunar living.
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Posted on Friday February 26th, 2016 by Ally
Experts at ESA’s European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne, Germany, train and prepare astronauts for their missions into space. Find out how the next generation is contributing to ESA's work to explore even farther through the Spaceship EAC initiative.
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