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Simonetta Di Pippo, Giuseppe Pizza and Enrico Saggese
Third ATV named after Edoardo Amaldi
 
16 March 2010   Production of the Automated Transfer Vehicles is gearing up. After the flawless flight of the first ATV, Jules Verne, the second, Johannes Kepler, is being completed for launch later this year. Now the third ATV has been named after the Italian physicist and space pioneer Edoardo Amaldi.

Mars500 facility in Moscow
Media opportunity: ESA presents European participants in 520-day simulated mission to Mars
 
12 March 2010   ESA PR 2010-05 A crew of six, including two Europeans, will soon begin a simulated mission to Mars in a mockup that includes an interplanetary spaceship, a Mars lander and a martian landscape. The Mars500 experiment, as long as a real journey to Mars, will be second to none as the ultimate test of human endurance.

International Space Station Heads of Agency meet in Japan
Joint Statement: International Space Station Heads of Agency
 
11 March 2010   ESA PR 2010-04 The heads of the International Space Station (ISS) agencies from Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia and the United States met in Tokyo, Japan, on 11 March 2010, to review ISS cooperation.

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