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August research on Space Station

As October nears, it is high time to look back  at the European research conducted on the International Space Station in August. While most were on holiday or enjoying the summer, science never stops in space… Illuminating radiation Thomas Pesquet with Lumina On 18 August ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet set up the Lumina experiment, which […]

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Pass the solar array, deploy – Thomas and Shane’s spacewalks in depth

On Wednesday 16 June and Sunday 20 June ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet and NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough are going to get into their Extravehicular Mobility Units – or spacesuits – and return outside the International Space Station for the third time together. Their mission on both spacewalks: to install new solar arrays that will increase power to the outpost.

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Spacewalk season two, episodes one and two for Shane and Thomas

Two spacewalks are fast approaching for ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, and NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough who are preparing to exit the International Space Station and upgrade the Station’s power supply.

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Matthias Maurer

Updated Space Station launch and return dates

NASA and SpaceX have adjusted the target launch date for Crew-3 to the International Space Station and the return date for Crew-2.

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European science on the SpaceX Cargo Dragon-22

A look at the European cargo arriving at the International Space Station on SpaceX CRS-22

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A European in space – Thomas Pesquet in May

With ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet in space for his first full month, let’s look at what he has been doing on the International Space Station in May.

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Samantha Cristoforetti

Are you Cristofoready?

ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti has been assigned a second space mission and will fly to the International Space Station in spring 2022.

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