28-05-2013 07:19 PM CEST
ESA
astronauts Luca and his crewmates, cosmonaut commander Fyodor
Yurchikhin and NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg, spent the last few weeks
before launch in Moscow, Russia passing their final exams for flying the
Soyuz spacecraft that will fly them to the International Space Station.
They received their official tickets to the orbital outpost on 10 May
when the Soyuz examination board declared them qualified to fly. The
crew left for the Baikonur launch facility on 16 May. The crew stayed at
the traditional Cosmonaut Hotel for the last days before launch. Luca,
Fyodor and Karen are quarantined to make sure they do not take any
unwanted bacteria or viruses to the Space Station. Family and support
personnel such as flight surgeons are the only people allowed to stay
with them. Cosmonauts Pavel Vinogradov, Alexander Misurkin and NASA
astronaut Chris Cassidy are already on the Station and will welcome the
new Expedition when the Soyuz docks on 29 May. Luca's Volare mission
is provided through an agreement with Italy's ASI space agency. His busy
schedule of science and maintenance involves two spacewalks to install
new equipment and retrieve experiments.
28-05-2013 05:07 PM CEST
First
SpaceUp in France, a two-day event hosted by ESA at its Headquarters in
Paris and organised by SpaceUp Paris volunteers. The event was
attended by 150 people from all over the world, not only engineers,
entrepreneurs and scientists, but also developers, students, graphists,
journalists... all passionate about space and committed to promoting of
space exploration.
28-05-2013 04:57 PM CEST
First
SpaceUp in France, a two-day event hosted by ESA at its Headquarters in
Paris and organised by SpaceUp Paris volunteers. The event was
attended by 150 people from all over the world, not only engineers,
entrepreneurs and scientists, but also developers, students, graphists,
journalists... all passionate about space and committed to promoting of
space exploration.
28-05-2013 04:25 PM CEST
First
SpaceUp in France, a two-day event hosted by ESA at its Headquarters in
Paris and organised by SpaceUp Paris volunteers. The event was
attended by 150 people from all over the world, not only engineers,
entrepreneurs and scientists, but also developers, students, graphists,
journalists... all passionate about space and committed to promoting of
space exploration.
28-05-2013 04:10 PM CEST
First
SpaceUp in France, a two-day event hosted by ESA at its Headquarters in
Paris and organised by SpaceUp Paris volunteers. The event was
attended by 150 people from all over the world, not only engineers,
entrepreneurs and scientists, but also developers, students, graphists,
journalists... all passionate about space and committed to promoting of
space exploration.
28-05-2013 03:50 PM CEST
First SpaceUp in
France, a two-day event hosted by ESA at its Headquarters in Paris and
organised by SpaceUp Paris volunteers. The event was attended by 150
people from all over the world, not only engineers, entrepreneurs and
scientists, but also developers, students, graphists, journalists... all
passionate about space and committed to promoting of space exploration.
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