While NASA astronaut Stephanie Wilson has created a small trench to analyze with a portable spectrometer some levels of now-buried rock deposits, ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst looks for more clues […]
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ESA PANGAEA Astronaut Away Team Training With Tricorders And Cameras
Astronaut candidate Jessica Wittner (NASA), astronauts Thomas Pesquet (ESA) and Takuya Onishi (JAXA) documenting the collection of geological samples during a field traverse of the ESA PANGAEA course using the […]
Tricorder Tech: Using ESA Electronic FieldBook And Spectrometer During Away Team Practice
Having found a site of interest, ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet investigates with the spectrometer while JAXA astronaut Takuya Onishi uses the microscope, associated with the ESA Electronic FieldBook.
Tricorder Tech: Andreas Mogensen Using ESA’s Electronic FieldBook On An Away Mission
ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, while using the ESA Electronic FieldBook (EFB) during the last traverse of the ESA PANGAEA course.
Concordia Station Away Team Members Depart Antarctica
Every year Concordia hosts a crew of up to 16 people coordinated by ESA and Concordia partners, supplied by universities and research institutions from across Europe. It is a joint […]
Offworld Biotech: 3D Bioprinting On The International Space Station
Imagine someone needs a heart transplant and scientists take cells from that person to create an entire new heart for them. Research on the International Space Station is helping to […]
ESA-JAXA Away Team Practices Away Mission Photography
ESA and JAXA astronauts recently conducted familiarization tryouts for the NASA Artemis HULC camera during a session of the ESA PANGAEA planetary geological field training in Lanzarote, Spain.
Exoplanet Practice: Webb Space Telescope Studies Uranus
Editor’s note: As we look outward at other worlds in other star systems we some major differences – and similarities with regard ot the variety of worlds and how they […]
ESA Away Team Tricorder Training: The Electronic Field Book
ESA is developing an application that tells astronauts where they are, where they ran scientific operations and will also connect to mission control. The Electronic Field Book is a tool […]
ESA Away Team Training: Tricorders Detect Underground Life
Astronauts from five space agencies around the world take part in ESA’s CAVES training course– Cooperative Adventure for Valuing and Exercising human behaviour and performance Skills.
