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    Astronauts for this year’s ESTEC Open Day

    15 June 2017

    August update: Astronauts  Jean-Jacques Favier and Mike Foale confirmed as additional Open Day guests

    The date is fixed: you are invited to visit ESA’s technical heart in the Netherlands for its annual Open Day on Sunday, 8 October.

    The theme this year is Bringing Space to Earth. Visit us to meet astronauts and mission experts, see how we simulate space on the ground, and discover the knowledge and technologies brought back to Earth from space.

    For now, please save the date. You can register to attend ESA’s Open Day in the Netherlands here.

    The first special VIP guests have already been confirmed: astronauts Michael Foale of the UK, Dumitru Prunariu of Romania, Ulf Merbold and Ernst Messerschmid of Germany, Dirk Frimout of Belgium, Jean-Jacques Favier and Claudie Haigneré of France and André Kuipers of the Netherlands. 

    In place for more than half a century, the ESTEC European Space Research and Technology Centre in Noordwijk on the North Sea coast is ESA’s largest establishment, focused on developing technology, planning missions and testing satellites.

    The hub of our continent’s space effort, this is where the majority of European space projects are born, developed and tested in advance of their flights into orbit.

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