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  • Luca Parmitano: back from Beyond

    Luca Parmitano: back from Beyond

    ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano returned from his second long-duration mission to the International Space Station, known as ‘Beyond’, on 6 February 2020. In this interview at ESA’s Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany, he shares some of his experiences and feelings after 201 days in orbit.

    This interview was conducted late on the night Luca landed in Cologne, and is the first full interview with him in Europe since he touched down in Kazakhstan at 09:12 GMT (10:12 CET) Thursday 6 February.

    Some of the highlights of Luca’s Beyond mission include becoming the third European and first Italian in command of the Space Station, leading three of four complex spacewalks to maintain the cosmic-ray-detecting Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer AMS-02, gaining the European record for most cumulative spacewalking time, remotely controlling a rock-collecting rover in the Netherlands, supporting over 50 European and 200 international experiments and sharing his experiences with those back on Earth through images and video links.

    One of the main things Luca highlighted throughout his mission was the fragility of our planet and the need to act now for generations to come.

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  • Luca Parmitano: torna da Beyond

    Luca Parmitano: torna da Beyond

    L’astronauta dell’ESA Luca Parmitano è tornato dalla sua seconda missione di lunga durata sulla Stazione Spaziale Internazionale chiamata ‘Beyond’, il 6 febbraio 2020. In questa intervista al Centro astronauti dell’ESA di Colonia in Germania, condivide alcune delle sue esperienze e dei suoi sentimenti dopo 201 giorni in orbita.

    Questa intervista è stata condotta nella tarda notte in cui Luca è atterrato a Colonia, ed è la prima intervista completa con lui in Europa da quando è atterrato in Kazakistan alle 09:12 GMT (10:12 CET) giovedì 6 febbraio.

    Tra i momenti salienti della missione Beyond di Luca ci sono: diventare il terzo europeo e il primo italiano al comando della Stazione Spaziale, condurre tre delle quattro complesse passeggiate spaziali, ottenere il record europeo per la maggior parte del tempo trascorso durante le passeggiate spaziali, controllare a distanza un rover che raccoglie rocce nei Paesi Bassi, condurre oltre 50 esperimenti europei e 200 internazionali e condividere le sue esperienze attraverso immagini e collegamenti video.

    Una delle cose principali che Luca ha evidenziato nel corso della sua missione è stata la fragilità del nostro pianeta e la necessità di agire ora per le generazioni a venire.

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  • Luca Parmitano: return to Earth

    Luca Parmitano: return to Earth

    ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano touched down in the Kazakh Steppe at 09:12 GMT (10:12 CET), 6 February 2020 after his second six-month mission on the International Space Station. Luca returned to Earth in the Russian Soyuz MS-13 spacecraft alongside US astronaut Christina Koch and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov.
    During his second mission, known as ‘Beyond’, Luca served as the third European and first ever Italian in command of the International Space Station. Before leaving the Station, he handed this role over to Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripocha in a traditional change of command ceremony.

    While in orbit, Luca also performed four complex spacewalks to maintain the cosmic-ray-detecting Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer AMS-02, remotely operated a rock-collecting rover in the Netherlands, supported more than 50 European and over 200 international experiments, gained the European record for longest cumulative spacewalking time, and publicly shared countless images as he warned of the challenges facing our planet.

    Luca will now return to ESA’s Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany where he will continue to work with researchers to gather baseline data and undertake an extensive programme of rehabilitation supported by ESA experts. The findings of this research and Luca’s work in space will help shape the future of space exploration and enhance technological developments on Earth.

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  • Intense ‘Beyond’ mission for Luca

    Intense ‘Beyond’ mission for Luca

    Italian ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano will return to Earth 6 February 2020, following his second long-duration mission on the International Space Station (ISS).

    Luca’s mission – known as ‘Beyond’ – began 20 July 2019, exactly 50 years after the first lunar landing. On this date, Luca was launched to the Space Station in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft alongside Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov and NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan.

    During Beyond, Luca supported over 50 European experiments in orbit. These included remotely operating a rover in the Netherlands to collect rock samples as instructed by scientists in Germany, and completing four complex spacewalks to repair the cosmic-ray-detecting Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer AMS-02. He also supported numerous international experiments and became the third European and first ever Italian commander of the International Space Station.

    Science and research completed during Luca’s mission will help pave the way for farther exploration as ESA looks beyond the International Space Station to the Moon and Mars.

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  • Grand tour of the International Space Station with Drew and Luca | Single take

    Grand tour of the International Space Station with Drew and Luca | Single take

    ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano and NASA astronaut Drew Morgan take you on a unique tour of the International Space Station shot in one take with two cameras strapped together. Luca and Drew take it in turns to guide you through the modules and spacecraft docked to the orbital outpost.

    Starting from the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft that bought Drew to the Space Station, the duo show each module and spacecraft docked with the International Space Station at the time it was recorded around the New Year 2020. Passing colleagues include NASA astronaut Jessica Meir and Christina Koch exercising and Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Skripochka.

    This is the first tour of the International Space Station with two astronauts presenting and the first done in a single take.

    At the time of recording three supply vehicles were docked, the Russian Progress MS-13, Space-X’s Dragon-19 and Northrup Grumman’s Cygnus-12, as well as two astronaut vehicles the Soyuz MS-15 and Soyuz MS-13.

    The map overlay graphic erroneously shows the future Nauka module instead of Pirs. The Russian Multipurpose Laboratory Module Nauka is planned for launch in the future and will replace Pirs, but we put it on the map already.

    Skip to specific modules or features such as the toilets using the timestamps below:

    00:00:06 Soyuz MS-15
    00:04:53 Zvezda service module
    00:08:01 Pirs
    00:09:27 Mini Research Module-2 (MRM-2)
    00:10:30 Soyuz MS-13
    00:11:44 MRM-2
    00:12:27 Progress
    00:13:19 Functional Cargo Block (FGB)
    00:07:12 Mini Research Module-1 (MRM-1)
    00:19:36 Pressurised Mating Adapter
    00:20:42 Node-1 Unity
    00:22:46 Northrup Grumman Cygnus-12
    00:27:32 Quest Airlock
    00:29:27 Node-3 Tranquility
    00:30:58 T2 Treadmill
    00:31:17 Toilet
    00:33:38 Cupola at night
    00:34:11 Permanent Multipurpose Module Leonardo (PMM)
    00:36:42 US laboratory Destiny
    00:37:45 Robotics station for Canadarm2
    00:38:40 Exercise bike
    00:42:21 Node-2 Harmony
    00:44:40 Space X Dragon
    00:46:35 European laboratory Columbus
    00:49:53 Japanese laboratory Kibo
    00:56:17 Space Station fly through
    01:00:43 Cupola daytime
    01:04:27 Goodbye from Cupola

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  • ESA highlights 2019

    ESA highlights 2019

    As the year comes to a close, it is once again time to look back and reflect on some of the achievements and highlights of European spaceflight. The new Gaia star catalogue and the launch of Cheops are keeping ESA at the forefront of space science, as will Solar Orbiter, being prepared for launch next year. The Copernicus programme continues to be the largest Earth observation programme in the world, with ESA preparing even more missions. On the Space Station, Luca Parmitano became the third European to command an ISS expedition. During his second mission, he made some of the space programme’s most complex and demanding spacewalks. At the end of 2019, the ESA Space19+ ministerial conference agreed to give ESA its largest budget ever and expressed continued support for Europe’s independent access to space with Ariane 6 and Vega-C.

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  • Paxi on the ISS: Airlock

    Paxi on the ISS: Airlock

    Our alien friend Paxi went to visit American astronaut Nick Hague on board the International Space Station. Nick shows Paxi the Airlock and how astronauts exit and enter the ISS.

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  • Happy Thanksgiving from NASA

    Happy Thanksgiving from NASA

    The Thanksgiving holiday is a time for enjoying family, friends, and especially food – and that goes for our astronauts in space.

    From the squeeze food tubes of the early Mercury missions to delicious tacos and mac & cheese on board the International Space Station, NASA’s space food scientists are working harder than ever to come up with the best tasting cosmic cuisine.

    So, whether your meal is floating out in front you, or resting firmly on your table – from our NASA family to yours, Happy Thanksgiving.

  • Challenging spacewalks for Luca

    Challenging spacewalks for Luca

    On 20 July 2019, ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano was launched to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. During the Beyond mission he will participate in several spacewalks (EVA) to repair the dark matter hunter Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, or AMS-02. Attached to the station during the STS-134 shuttle mission in May 2011, the AMS was never designed to be maintained in orbit. Luca has trained extensively for this challenging task, which will involve complicated techniques and the use of specially-designed tools.

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  • Spacewalks for AMS

    Spacewalks for AMS

    ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano will soon take part in several challenging spacewalks to service the International Space Station’s largest scientific instrument.

    The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) is a sub-atomic particle detector that looks for dark matter, antimatter and measures cosmic rays – high energy particles that travel through space at close to the speed of light.

    The AMS took 16 countries nearly 20 years to develop. It was assembled at CERN, tested at ESA’s ESTEC facility in The Netherlands and installed on the Space Station in 2011. Since then it has collected over 145 billion cosmic ray events across a range of energy levels and has already provided the first insights into potential antimatter and dark matter.

    The maintenance of the AMS’ cooling system will ensure it can continue to provide more data and groundbreaking science. This film contains soundbites from the instrument’s Principal Investigator, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Professor Samuel Ting (MIT/CERN).

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  • Paxi on the ISS: EVA suits

    Paxi on the ISS: EVA suits

    Our alien friend Paxi went to visit American astronaut Anne McClain on board the International Space Station. Anne shows Paxi the EVA suits that astronauts wear during a spacewalk outside of the ISS.

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  • NASA Astronauts Complete All-Woman Spacewalk

    NASA Astronauts Complete All-Woman Spacewalk

    On Friday, Oct. 18, NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir completed NASA’s first all-woman spacewalk. During the 7-hour, 17-minute spacewalk, the pair replaced a failed power controller and completed several other tasks in preparation for future spacewalks.

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  • Suiting up for space

    Suiting up for space

    This timelapse video from the International Space Station shows ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano helping NASA astronauts Andrew Morgan and Christina Koch prepare for a spacewalk on 6 October 2019.

    Andrew and Christina worked outside in the vacuum of space for seven hours and one minute to begin the latest round of upgrading the station’s large nickel-hydrogen batteries with newer, more powerful lithium-ion batteries.

    This spacewalk is one of many scheduled for October and November. The first all-female spacewalk is expected to take place during the week of 14 October and Luca is expected to complete his first spacewalk of the Beyond mission later in November.

    During his November spacewalks, Luca will work to repair and enhance the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer – a particle physics experiment module that was never designed to be maintained in orbit.

    The music accompanying this timelapse is I Go Blind 2 sourced from Audio Network.

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  • Paxi on the ISS: Inspirational Teachers

    Paxi on the ISS: Inspirational Teachers

    Our alien friend Paxi went to visit American astronaut Christina Koch on board the International Space Station. Christina talks about the importance of teachers and shares a story about her favourite teacher at school.

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  • Expedition 60 Crew Returns Safely from the Space Station on This Week @NASA – Oct 4, 2019

    Expedition 60 Crew Returns Safely from the Space Station on This Week @NASA – Oct 4, 2019

    A safe conclusion to the latest long-duration spaceflight, calling on industry to help us accelerate our return to the Moon, and practice makes perfect – before the real thing … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!

  • Luca Parmitano takes command

    Luca Parmitano takes command

    Russian Cosmonaut Aleksei Ovtchinin passes the command of the International Space Station to Luca Parmitano in an official ceremony held on 2 October 2019. The ESA astronaut is the third European and the first Italian to have such responsibilities on the Space Station. Luca is Commander for Expedition 61, and for the second part of his second space mission known as Beyond.

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  • Playmobil go above and beyond with ESA’s Luca Parmitano

    Playmobil go above and beyond with ESA’s Luca Parmitano

    Playmobil figures are enjoyed by millions of children around the world, but now two very special figures, in the likeness of ESA’s Luca Parmitano, are flying around Earth with the astronaut himself.

    Luca unpacked the two figures that arrived on the Cygnus NG-11 cargo ship in April 2019. The special edition figurines, limited to 25 000 can only be found with copies of the October 2019 Italian edition of Playmobil magazine.

    This issue of the magazine is full of space-themed stories to inspire children and set their imaginations racing, while explaining about space exploration, the science behind the International Space Station and what we know about the Universe and what lies beyond our planet.

    Playmobil toys are known for helping children develop their imaginations and concentration skills as they invent worlds for these little figures. The magazine and figure collaboration is a partnership between ESA, the Italian space agency ASI and the Italian publisher to celebrate Luca’s achievements and promote learning and foster curiosity and creativity in children.

    The Playmobil Luca sports an astronaut ‘Snoopy’ hat, similar to that worn by the real Luca as he will prepare to don his spacesuit for a series of complex spacewalks later in his mission to repair the AMS-02 ‘antimatter hunter’ instrument outside the Space Station. The Snoopy cap holds the headphone and microphone communication so spacewalkers can talk to mission control and their colleagues inside the Space Station.

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  • Brad Pitt Speaks with NASA Astronaut Nick Hague Aboard the International Space Station

    Brad Pitt Speaks with NASA Astronaut Nick Hague Aboard the International Space Station

    “What’s a spacewalk like? What do you feel?” As NASA prepares to send the first woman and next man to the Moon by 2024 under the #Artemis program, Brad Pitt is playing an astronaut in his latest film, Ad Astra. On Sept. 16 from NASA Headquarters in Washington, the actor spoke to astronaut Nick Hague about what it’s truly like to live and work in space.

    Here are the questions that Brad Pitt asked Nick Hague?
    0:59 How did we do [in the movie]? How was our Zero-G?
    1:33 Do you know what everything is on the wall behind you?
    2:33 What are the repercussions on your body in Zero-G?
    2:38 How do you gauge your waking hours if you see 16 sunrises and sunsets each day?
    3:50 Is there a night shift?
    4:45 Could you see the Chandrayaan-2 Moon mission from the International Space Station?
    6:15 What are your current missions?
    8:02 What does spaceflight affect your mental state? How do you keep it at peace?
    9:25 What is your experience like as you look back on Earth?
    10:57 Who controls the jam box?
    11:49 How are you able to stay in a single space?
    12:53 How are you using 3D printing in space?
    14:33 What is a spacewalk like?
    16:18 Who is more believable playing an astronaut (George Clooney or Brad Pitt)?

  • How to come up with an idea for Mission Space Lab

    How to come up with an idea for Mission Space Lab

    For those looking for ideas for Mission Space Lab, this video offers some tips on how to come up with experiments by taking into account the AstroPi sensors available as well as some practical constraints.

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  • Kulturfestival – Space Station Earth premiere

    Kulturfestival – Space Station Earth premiere

    Space was the theme of the 2019 Stockholm Culture Festival, a mass event that took over central Stockholm, Sweden, from 13 to 17 August.

    Art, music, films and science activities for all ages took to the streets to satisfy the audience’s curiosity about space.

    At the festival’s interactive planet exhibition, the whole family could feel and learn more about our galaxy and how space can improve our lives on Earth. Iconic images of the Moon and some rare shots of the preparations behind the scenes were on display in the exhibition ‘A Swedish camera on the Moon’ at Brunkebergstorg Square in Stockholm.

    ESA’s astrophysicist Matt Taylor shared the fascinating space adventure of Rosetta, the first ever mission to land on a comet.
    ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano talked to thousands of festival-goers on 13 August to share his experiences in orbit, less than a month into his mission Beyond. Fellow astronauts Tim Peake and Thomas Reiter were on stage to host the event and bring the audience closer to space.

    A stunning new film, called ‘Space Station Earth’, featuring images from space set to music by composer Ilan Eshkeri, made its world premiere on the opening night of the festival supported by a large orchestra, a choir and electronic instruments.

    Combining images taken by ESA astronauts aboard the International Space Station with new footage created with the latest video techniques, the whole multimedia experience allowed the audience to see through astronauts’ eyes.

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  • Luca Parmitano launches the 2019-20 European Astro Pi Challenge

    Luca Parmitano launches the 2019-20 European Astro Pi Challenge

    ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano is this year’s ambassador of the European Astro Pi Challenge. In this video, he welcomes students to the challenge and gives an overview of the project.

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  • Views of Hurricane Dorian from the International Space Station – September 6, 2019

    Views of Hurricane Dorian from the International Space Station – September 6, 2019

    Cameras outside the International Space Station captured views at 8:10 a.m. Eastern time September 6 of a weakening Hurricane Dorian from 260 miles in altitude as it churned just off the outer banks of North Carolina. In its 8 a.m. EDT advisory, the National Hurricane Center said category 1 Hurricane Dorian is moving toward the northeast near 14 mph with maximum sustained winds of 90 miles an hour. The general motion of Dorian, with an increase in forward speed, is expected through Saturday. On the forecast track, the center of Dorian will move near or over the coast of North Carolina during the next several hours. The center should move to the southeast of extreme southeastern New England tonight and Saturday morning, and then across Nova Scotia late Saturday or Saturday night.

    Dorian should remain a potent hurricane as it moves near or along the coast of North Carolina during the next several hours. Dorian is forecast to become a post-tropical cyclone with hurricane-force winds by Saturday night as it approaches Nova Scotia. Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 45 miles from the center of the system and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 220 miles.

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  • Views of Hurricane Dorian from the International Space Station – September 2, 2019

    Views of Hurricane Dorian from the International Space Station – September 2, 2019

    Cameras outside the International Space Station captured views at 11:27 a.m. EDT on Sept. 2 of Hurricane Dorian from 260 miles in altitude as it churned over northwestern Bahamas. In its 11:00 a.m. EDT advisory, the National Hurricane Center said Dorian was almost stationary, moving toward the west at just 1 mile an hour just over 100 miles east of West Palm Beach, Florida, packing catastrophic sustained winds of 155 miles an hour. A slow westward to west-northwestward motion is forecast during the next day or so, followed by a gradual turn toward the northwest and north. On this track, the core of extremely dangerous Hurricane Dorian will continue to pound Grand Bahama Island through much of today and tonight. The hurricane will move dangerously close to the east coast of Florida tonight through Wednesday evening and dangerously close to the Georgia and South Carolina coasts Wednesday night and Thursday. Currently, Dorian is a category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. Although gradual weakening is forecast, Dorian is expected to remain a powerful hurricane during the next couple of days while moving on a possible track up the southeastern U.S. seaboard.

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  • Views of Hurricane Dorian from the International Space Station – September 1, 2019

    Views of Hurricane Dorian from the International Space Station – September 1, 2019

    Cameras outside the International Space Station captured views September 1 of Hurricane Dorian from 260 miles in altitude at 12:16 p.m. Eastern time as it churned over the Atlantic Ocean over the northern Bahamas. The storm, which is moving in a westerly direction with sustained winds of 180 miles an hour, is a dangerous Category 5 hurricane, carrying the strongest winds in recorded history for the northwestern Bahamas. The National Hurricane Center said in its 11 a.m. EDT advisory that Dorian is inflicting catastrophic damage to the Abacos and Grand Bahama Islands. Dorian is forecast to approach the east coast of Florida before taking a possible track up the southeastern U.S. seaboard later this week.

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  • Views of Hurricane Dorian from the International Space Station – August 30, 2019

    Views of Hurricane Dorian from the International Space Station – August 30, 2019

    Cameras outside the International Space Station captured views August 30 of rapidly intensifying Hurricane Dorian at 12:18 p.m. Eastern time as it churned over the Atlantic Ocean. The storm, which is moving to the northwest, is forecast by the National Hurricane Center to approach the east coast of Florida Monday evening as a likely category 4 hurricane.

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  • Becoming a planetary explorer with Matthias Maurer | Space Bites

    Becoming a planetary explorer with Matthias Maurer | Space Bites

    We are training astronauts to explore the lunar surface, collect samples, perform experiments and create an outpost in order to live and work on the Moon. But how will future lunar exploration differ from how Apollo astronauts explored and worked on the Moon?

    Our astronaut Matthias Maurer talks of the challenging training he went through during the new episode of Space Bites.

    Space Bites hosts the best talks on space exploration from the most inspiring and knowledgeable speakers from the field. Held at the technical heart of the European Space Agency in The Netherlands, the lectures illustrate the challenges of space.

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    More information on our telerobotics and haptics laboratory:
    http://bit.ly/TeleroboticsAndHapticsLaboratory including how the Centaur rover is used with sub-millimetre precision while operated from the International Space Station: https://youtu.be/6kMqt4sMFdM

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  • Horizons mission in review

    Horizons mission in review

    During ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst’s second mission to the International Space Station he supported over 60 European experiments and became Europe’s second ever Space Station Commander. This clip shares a few highlights from Alexander’s Horizons mission and gives a glimpse into life on the Station.

    Alexander was launched to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 6 June 2018. He travelled to the Station with NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor and Russian cosmonaut Sergei Prokopyev in a Russian Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft, spent just over six months in orbit and returned to Earth on 20 December 2018.

    Watch this journey from launch to landing for a snapshot of memorable moments.

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  • Foams. We research. You benefit.

    Foams. We research. You benefit.

    Foams are ubiquitous in our daily lives: they are used to produce food, detergents and plastics. Foams are inherently unstable in gravity, because the liquid between the bubbles is pulled downwards bursting the bubbles in the process. Experiments on the International Space Station have shown that foams are more stable in microgravity because they remain wet. It has even been possible to make foams from pure water.

    Foam research in microgravity allows researchers to better understand the processes and calculate models in the most optimal conditions. This is leading to better production and assembly of products containing foams as well as more effective foam-suppression agents.

    Many industrial applications benefit from foam research and development in space: cleaning products, cosmetics, fire-fighting and medicines are just some examples. The quality, texture, taste and shelf-life of food and beverages can be enhanced – from the supermarket to the consumers’ fridge.

    “It is a game change for our business” says Cécile Gehin-Delval, from Nestlé Research Laboratories in Orbe, Switzerland.

    The step to space research is closer than you might think. Get involved with spaceflight research via www.esa.int/spaceflightAO. Find out about our commercial partnerships and opportunities in human and robotic exploration via www.esa.int/explorationpartners to run your research in microgravity as well.

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  • Paxi on the ISS: Living in space

    Paxi on the ISS: Living in space

    Our alien friend Paxi went to visit American astronaut Anne McClain on board the International Space Station. Anne explains some of the mental challenges of being an astronaut on the ISS.

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  • Beyond launch and docking highlights

    Beyond launch and docking highlights

    ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano has arrived on the International Space Station following a six-hour flight in the Russian Soyuz MS-13 spacecraft alongside NASA astronaut Drew Morgan and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov.

    The trio were launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 16:28 GMT (18:28 CEST) on Saturday 20 July and orbited Earth four times before docking to the Station’s Zvezda service module at 22:50 GMT (00:50 CEST).

    This mission to the International Space Station is the second for Luca, the third for Alexander and the first for Drew. They were warmly welcomed by NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Nick Hague and current International Space Station commander Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos, bringing the number of humans in orbit to six.

    This clip shows highlights from preparations prior to launch, liftoff, docking and hatch opening as the crew start to settle into their new home and workplace.

    Luca will live and work in orbit for the six-month duration of his Beyond mission. There, he will support over 50 European experiments and more than 200 international experiments in microgravity.

    During the latter part of his mission, Expedition 61, he will take up the role of Space Station commander. He is the first Italian and third European astronaut ever appointed to this role, after ESA astronauts Alexander Gerst in 2018 and Frank De Winne in 2009.

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  • Soyuz ride to the Space Station

    Soyuz ride to the Space Station

    The ride to the International Space Station sees astronauts launched on top of a rocket fuelled by 300 tonnes of propellant. Where on Earth do astronauts take off? When do they experience weightlessness for the first time? And how long does the trip take?

    Watch in just over a minute the events from launch to docking. This video is based on a training lesson for ESA astronauts, and it features footage taken from inside the Soyuz spacecraft.

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    Credits: ESA/NASA/Roscosmos/Google Earth

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  • The Beyond mission

    The Beyond mission

    ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano is about to be launched to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

    The six-month Beyond mission will be the Italian astronaut’s second flight to the Space Station.

    He will be conducting an extensive series of scientific experiments and has multiple spacewalks planned to repair the antimatter hunter Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-02. During the second half of his expedition, Luca will become the third European commander of the Space Station.

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  • Happy 4th of July from the Space Station Crew

    Happy 4th of July from the Space Station Crew

    Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 60 Flight Engineers Nick Hague and Christina Koch of NASA honored America’s 243rd birthday by wishing Americans at home and around the world a happy 4th of July.

    Learn more about the research on board our orbiting laboratory: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html

  • Sunset Timelapse from the International Space Station

    Sunset Timelapse from the International Space Station

    Enjoy this sped-up Earth view, captured by the Expedition 59 astronauts currently onboard the International Space Station. The station orbits the Earth every 90 minutes — meaning this sunset you see is actually one of 16 the station residents see each day!

  • Time-lapse Earth Flyover from NASA Astronaut in Space

    Time-lapse Earth Flyover from NASA Astronaut in Space

    This time-lapse video taken by NASA astronaut Nick Hague squeezes a 30-minute International Space Station trip over a cloudy Earth into 60 seconds, covering the Pacific to the Atlantic.

    Learn more about the orbiting laboratory: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html

  • Paxi on the ISS: Moving in space

    Paxi on the ISS: Moving in space

    Our alien friend Paxi, went to visit American astronaut Anne McClain on board the International Space Station. Anne explains to Paxi how astronauts move around in weightlessness on the ISS.

    Credits: ESA/NASA

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  • NASA Astronaut Anne McClain Addresses Spacewalk Reassignment

    NASA Astronaut Anne McClain Addresses Spacewalk Reassignment

    During an interview with ABC News on April 1, 2019, NASA Astronaut Anne McClain addressed a question about what would have been the first all-female spacewalk during Women’s History Month. Based on McClain’s recommendation, NASA changed assignments to protect the safety of the crew and the timing of the mission.

    Learn more about the spacewalk reassignment at https://www.nasa.gov/feature/spacewalk-reassignments-what-s-the-deal.

  • Taking the Next Giant Leap – Sooner on This Week @NASA – March 29, 2019

    Taking the Next Giant Leap – Sooner on This Week @NASA – March 29, 2019

    Accelerating our return to the Moon, another spacewalk outside the International Space Station, and testing our Mars Helicopter … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!

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  • Growing blood vessels. We research. You benefit.

    Growing blood vessels. We research. You benefit.

    By cultivating human endothelial cells in space, researchers are gaining knowledge about the way our blood vessels function. This could help prevent and treat diseases such as atherosclerosis, hypertension, diabetes and thrombosis here on Earth, while keeping astronauts healthy in space.

    In this video, biochemist and molecular biologist Dr Markus Wehland discusses the Spheroids experiment, which ran on the International Space Station during ESA astronaut Tim Peake’s Principia mission in 2016.

    Cells cultivated in microgravity during this experiment assembled into globular and tubular structures. These structures were similar to the inner lining of blood vessels inside our bodies, but had never been achieved before by scientists cultivating cells on Earth.

    Knowledge about cell growth and structure gained through this study could aid the development of tissue engineering techniques to replace damaged blood vessels in patients. It could also improve the efficiency and safety of drugs that help regulate vessel development.

    It is good news for those affected by cardiovascular disease and a great example of the way in which research in microgravity is enhancing life on Earth.

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  • Living in space

    Living in space

    Over the last two decades, space agencies have created more comfortable conditions on the International Space Station, but we need to explore the concept of ‘living in space’ much further if humans are to ever live and work on another world, such as the Moon or Mars.

    ESA’s Discovery and Preparation Programme works to prepare ESA for the future of space exploration. As part of this programme, ESA has worked with academic and industrial partners on a huge number of studies that lay the groundwork for living in space.

    The technology that exists today could easily take us to the Moon and beyond, but it is studies like those carried out under the Discovery and Preparation Programme that will make a trip resourceful, sustainable and productive.

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