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Chris Hadfield at EAC, Cologne, to train on Mocup
Future Space Station crew train to control rover from orbit
 
25 May 2012   Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield and NASA’s Sunita Williams, both scheduled for missions to the International Space Station, have completed their training at ESA’s European Astronaut Centre to learn how to drive a model rover remotely on Earth from space.
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Watch replay: European SpaceLab finalists speak with André Kuipers and Don Pettit
 
On 16 May, the European finalists from the Google YouTube SpaceLab competition joined astronauts, scientists, educators and students for a special presentation of their Space Station science experiments and a live call with ESA's André Kuipers and NASA's Don Pettit. The event took place at the European Astronaut Centre, Cologne, Germany.

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ESA sponsors the YouTube Space lab student science competition
Call for Media: Europe’s SpaceLab finalists link up with space and meet astronauts
 
9 May 2012   PR 14 2012 - Europe’s finalists in the Space Lab challenge will join astronauts, scientists and Google managers at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne on 16 May to discuss their experiment ideas and call ESA astronaut André Kuipers on the International Space Station.
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