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Paolo Nespoli heads to Space Station on MagISStra mission15 December 2010
Paolo Nespoli heads to Space Station on MagISStra mission15 December 2010 ESA PR 30-2010 ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli is on his way to the International Space Station with crewmates Dmitri Kondratyev and Catherine Coleman aboard their Soyuz spacecraft following liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 20:09:25 C...
Hatch closed: 18-month Mars500 mission has begun03 June 2010
Hatch closed: 18-month Mars500 mission has begun03 June 2010 Mars500, the first full-length simulated mission to Mars, started today in Moscow at 13:49 local time (11:49 CET), when the six-man crew entered their ‘spacecraft’ and the hatch was closed. The experiment will run until November next year.