ESA astronaut Frank De Winne answers to 20 year old Thomas Kern from Germany. This question and all others are on ESA's YouTube channel. You can also send in your question!

ESA Parabolic Flight Campaign successfully completed in Bordeaux   5 November 2009   ESA’s 51st Parabolic Flight Campaign took place this week in Bordeaux, France. Fourteen scientific experiments were conducted by European scientists under microgravity conditions on the modified Airbus A300 aircraft. Four of the experiments were conducted by student teams as part of ESA’s ‘Fly Your Thesis!’ programme. Full story

ESA calls for ideas for climate change experiments from ISS   30 October 2009   ESA is looking for ideas to use the International Space Station as a platform to conduct research into global climate change. Full story