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ISS Business Newsletter - April 2006
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Space hygiene - promising business opportunities
 
 
Shampoo
Weightless washcloths and floating showers
 
Coming home from a hard day at work, all of us enjoy taking a long hot shower or a nice steamy bath. It's the most natural thing on Earth. But what if you are not on Earth? What if you are living in the weightlessness of space? Personal hygiene suddenly does not come that easy anymore.
 
   
 
CPO participates in BioSquare 2006
 
 
ESA networking activities in the Biotechnology community
 
ESA used BioSquare, one of the most important networking events of Europe's biotechnology industry, to promote the unique opportunities that research aboard the International Space Station offers to the Biotechnology community.
 
   
 
Promoting opportunities on ISS in Eastern Europe
 
 
SURE workshop
SURE Campaign through nine countries concluded successfully
 
At the end of January, a team of ESA business developers and scientific coordinators started a tour through nine Eastern European countries to promote the SURE initiative, a common project between ESA and the European Commission funded via the 6th framework programme.
 
   
 
Series - introducing our industrial partners
 
 
Filippo Ugolini
Engineering and beyond
 
The Commercial Promotion Office interviewed Filippo Ugolini, CEO of the AGT Group and Professor of Biomechanics at the University Rome, about his visions of commercial exploitation of human spaceflight and the ISS.
 
   
 
CPO on the road
 
  Upcoming events
 
The Commercial Promotion Office will be present at the following trade shows:
  • Berlin Air Show ILA 2006 - 16-21 May - Berlin (D)
  • Space Tourism Conference (Royal Aeronautical Society) From Lofty Dreams to Commercial Reality - 7 June - London (UK)
  • Farnborough International Airshow 06 - 17-23 July - Farnborough (UK)

 
   
   
 
Last update: 18 May 2006
 
 
 
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