A view of the kitchen area at the Abel Cave campsite, where the ESA CAVES 2025 course crew and support team are staying.
ESA CAVES (Cooperative Adventure for Valuing and Exercising human behaviour and performance Skills) is an ESA astronaut training program.
The 2025 iteration placed a multicultural crew of four astronauts in the remote Sardinian caves in Italy for an isolated, 4-day underground expedition to simulate the isolation, confinement, and critical decision-making of spaceflight
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