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Europe’s ATV space ferry set for launch to Space Station

8 February 2012 Fuel, water, oxygen, air and most of the dry cargo have been loaded into ESA's third Automated Transfer Vehicle, Edoardo Amaldi, as the 9 March liftoff approaches.

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Mission X: are you fit for space?

3 February 2012 “We are fun, we are strong and we are enthusiastic, we are going to win Mission X!” claimed one school at the Mission X launch. They will have their work cut out, judging by the eagerness of other schoolchildren across Europe.

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Concordia station and <i>aurora australis</i>

Voyage to the most isolated base on Earth

27 January 2012 Alexander Kumar, the next ESA-sponsored crewmember to stay in Concordia, has arrived safely at the research base in Antarctica. The voyage to one of the remotest places on Earth takes even longer than the voyage to the International Space Station.

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Robot competition in zero-gravity European finalists selected in Space Lab student competition "I'll go where your music takes me..."Dutch Prime Minister ‘phones’ André Kuipers in space

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