From liftoff to splashdown: the I mission in 1 minute.
A stellar flight and a wonderful collaboration with thousands , , , and many more 👏.
Let's go #Artemis II ! 🚀👩🚀👨🚀🌔
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🌘 Teams of space agencies & private organisations across the globe plan to return to the Moon... to stay.
This will open opportunities for innovative new business models.
intended tender 'Lunar Economy Applications'... coming soon!
business.esa.int/funding/intend
#ForwardToTheMoon
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How do we turn our astronauts into certified lunar explorers? 👨🚀👩🚀🚀🌚
Our #PANGAEA geology course trains astronauts to become effective field scientists on the Moon's surface.
🔗esa.int/Science_Explor
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What would your spacesuit look like? Submit a visual design for a #European spacesuit and win a trip to 's astronaut centre : esa.int/Science_Explor
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3 members of the astronaut reserve joined a space physician training course set-up at .
It was a pleasure to meet & in the ESA Neutral Buoyancy Facility and to have them touching spacewalk training tools for the 1st time.
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🔥❄ How to fly : these are the people that keep cool when things heat up, and keep the European Service Module warm when things get cold, team Thermal: blogs.esa.int/orion/2023/02/
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About five hours into today's spacewalk, astronauts and continue installing hardware to prepare the space station for its next roll-out solar array. nasa.gov/live
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🎥 #DeliverUsMars: ESA #Mars experts and talk to Koen and Paul Deetman of and explain some of the real-life inspiration behind their epic new space game with 👇 #RedPlanet #ExploreFarther
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Meet the martians: Audrey Bouvier and the cosmic puzzle. 👩🏽🔬☄️🔬🧩🌌
This cosmochemist has been studying meteorites for almost two decades, and is eager to know what #MarsSampleReturn samples can tell us about the Red Planet.
A lab story on 's #blog: blogs.esa.int/to-mars-and-ba
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This weekend we are in Lyon, 🇫🇷, at Festival Yggdrasil with a model , hardware, astronaut candidate and more! demainmaisenmieux.festivalyggdrasil.fr
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Humankind is returning to the #Moon with #Artemis, and we want the best #science back. 's geology course trains astronauts to become effective field scientists on the lunar surface.
📰 Here is PANGAEA's recipe to turn astronauts into Moon explorers: esa.int/Science_Explor
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And then there were 🔟. Scattered around an ancient river delta, 10 tubes lay around the rover, filled with samples that could help answer if life ever arose on #Mars.
First sample depot on another world for #MarsSampleReturn, completed: esa.int/ESA_Multimedia
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Geology, geology everywhere: the Red Planet is covered in fascinating features, as shown in these new images from #MarsExpress. This slice of #Mars alone shows signs of past water, volcanism, tectonics and cratering 💧☄️🌋 esa.int/Science_Explor [1/2]
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And that's 🔟!
With a final tube drop, I’ve completed the diverse backup set of samples I’m setting down. Future #MarsSampleReturn robots could come for these, or if all goes well, I’ll have lots more fascinating stuff in hand when they get here.
More: go.nasa.gov/3DjZWof
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Calling designers: send us a spacesuit design by midnight CET 28 February! Winners will be invited for a visit of the European Astronaut Centre and more.
How to enter and details: ideas.esa.int/servlet/hype/I
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The III mission will be the first astronaut Moon landing in over 50 years – a look at the mission profile with a focus on how the European Service Module will power #ForwardToTheMoon
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The European Service Module-2 looking good with those red highlights. The red covers will be removed before flight, #ForwardToTheMoon! esa.int/Science_Explor
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Pushing Orion's first crew to the Moon! Technicians at @NASAKennedy install the engine nozzle on the service module that will propel Orion on #Artemis II.
nasa.gov/image-feature/
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Remote work, but it doesn't get more #remotework than this.
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How to travel to Concordia research station with Sascha Freigang, 's current research medical doctor in #Antarctica: blogs.esa.int/concordia/2023
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Nos astronautes ESA et sont en effet de superbes ambassadeurs de l’Europe spatiale et de son puissant moteur #francoallemand ! Merci pour l’accueil et pour les belles discussions inspirantes ce soir à Paris!
#60ans60jahre
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Quel plaisir d’écouter @Soph_astro et @astro_matthias parler de la coopération 
dans l’#espace! Un grand merci à eux pour leur participation à cet événement organisé autour du 60e anniversaire du traité de l’Élysée. Vive l’#amitié franco-allemande, sur Terre et dans l’espace!
dans l’#espace! Un grand merci à eux pour leur participation à cet événement organisé autour du 60e anniversaire du traité de l’Élysée. Vive l’#amitié franco-allemande, sur Terre et dans l’espace!
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👍 Interested in producing and selling ESA merch?
👍 We’ve just made it easier to use the ESA brand to create merchandise or materials for events.
👉 esa.int/About_Us/Corpo
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😴 Trouble waking up this morning? Imagine waking up in orbit around Mars after a 5-month #hibernation!
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Science fiction now, but is researching human hibernation for interplanetary missions and medically-induced torpor for patients on Earth. esa.int/Science_Explor
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Le programme #Artemis1 ouvre un nouveau chapitre dans la conquête spatiale : le retour vers la Lune🌑
Mais que sait-on de la Lune ? Peut-on y vivre ?
🎧 Ecoutez le podcast "Mars, l'odyssée - l'étape lunaire" pour en savoir + - Avec -
👉bit.ly/3EgK8SK
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😎 For the first time, digital content of the #ESAArchives is freely available in one place 👉historicalarchives.esa.int
After years of research and digitisation, this first release opens the Archive image collections to the public, with more to come! 👉 esa.int/About_Us/Corpo
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"The ISS is a stronghold of international, peaceful and fruitful cooperation. It is extremely important that the ISS remains as a bridge that was not burned" #BBESpaceConf
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Drop off for martian samples, anyone? 🔴🧪📬
When 's interplanetary delivery spacecraft returns #Mars samples to #Earth, will process them. 🔬
👩🔬 European scientists are ready to help analyse the pristine samples in the next decade.
nasa.gov/press-release/
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Gateway’s ESPRIT Refueling Module will refuel Gateway and support long-duration missions in deep space.
During VR testing, a NASA engineer peeks through the module windows that will provide astronauts views of the Moon and Earth.
Learn more: bit.ly/3FiDLjF
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Would you live in cave? 🤔
Huge caverns on the #Moon and #Mars can offer shelter for astronauts.
For the first time, the International Planetary Caves Conference takes place in a very special cave formation in Lanzarote, Spain. 🇪🇸
hou.usra.edu/meetings/4thca
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A Hitchhiker's Guide to the #Moon: jump on those #RashidRover wheels. 👍⚙️ 🌚
In a first for , panels stuck to the wheels will test how materials cope with the abrasive #lunar surface. The mission will land on the Moon in April.
esa.int/Enabling_Suppo
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Unboxing a lunar experiment 🦠⏩🌚📦👐🤩
A happy scientist shows yeast cells that flew on a #Moon trip aboard to study the impact of radiation in deep space.
European radiation sensors were also along for the ride, the digital unboxing of their data is to come.
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What’s it like to unpack research that flew in space?
Dr. Luis Zea knows the feeling! These videos capture Dr. Zea’s first look at his study of yeast cells which traveled around the Moon inside @NASA_Orion.
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Where exactly shall we land astronauts on the Moon? This study analysed possible landing areas searching for interesting geological features: esa.int/Science_Explor #ForwardToTheMoon
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🔴 LIVE now: our start-of-year press briefing, with ESA Director General and ESA Directors, looking ahead in 2023, on #ESAwebTV 👉 esawebtv.esa.int
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. becomes ambassador: "Being an ESA astronaut has been the most extraordinary experience. I shall continue to support ESA & the , with a focus on educational outreach & look forward to the many exciting opportunities ahead.”👉bit.ly/3XlP0hU
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Over 20 years of astronaut missions to the International in this #infographic.
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Up next is with the #Huginn mission...
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esa.int/ESA_Multimedia
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Helga and Zohar are back at after their #Artemis launch to the Moon. The time has come to start analysing the radiation received by the two research mannequins:
blogs.esa.int/orion/2023/01/
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Our #LunaTwins have left the capsule! 👥🎉 The twin mannequins were successfully retrieved from inside on site at . Helga & Zohar were welcomed by the MARE research team & are expected back in Germany in February. 🙌 dlr.de/content/en/art
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Teams have unloaded the #LunaTwins from the spacecraft following the #Artemis I mission.
These two female manikins, Helga and Zohar, measured radiation levels to potentially reduce exposure during future missions with astronauts: go.nasa.gov/3XBH8Zq
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A sunspot has appeared so large it is visible to the naked (but *of course* sun-protected) eye!
Grab some eclipse glasses🕶️, pray for a sunny day🌞 and check out the few-times-larger-than-Earth 'NOAA AR 13190'
🌞▪️ should be visible for the next ~5 days
#SpaceWeather
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lightimage on the ESA #SpaceWeather Portal is shown below with
to scale!
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Commander Moonikin Campos, having flown around the Moon & returned to Earth, has emerged from & is heading to for evaluation.
Campos collected data throughout the flight that will prepare astronauts for future #Artemis missions: go.nasa.gov/3CYwRyv
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🙋♂️ Would you like to join a clinical study for space #research? Participants will:
🛌 Stay 60 days in bed, with the head end tilted down
🌀 Spin on a centrifuge
💪 Exercise without leaving the bed
🚨 is looking for 12 bedrest volunteers:
medes.fr/fr/actualites/
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It's that time of year! 's Walk to the Moon Challenge begins TODAY through 31 May. Help mascots Leo and Luna make the 384 400 km trip from 🌎to the 🌑 by completing activities to earn steps.
📝Registration open until 31 May
🌍Open worldwide
esa.int/Education/Miss
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