Our favourite spacecraft was the setting for the finals of the Volare Space Robotics challenge held at ESA’s technical heart ESTEC yesterday. Students were tasked to unload cargo from ATV and bring it to the other side of a shortened version of the International Space Station. Read the full article on the ESA website for more information.

Luca Parmitano greeted the students from space and even demonstrated how ATV floats in microgravity: