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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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Concordia base sunset
Farewell to the Sun
 
11 May 2012   The crew of the French–Italian Concordia research base in the Antarctic saw their last rays of Sun for over four months last weekend. Near the South Pole, the outpost will now continue its research and run self-sufficiently in darkness until September.
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Concordia's astronomy experiments under Milky way.
Wanted: doctors who are not afraid of the dark
 
10 May 2012   Do you have a medical degree and would like to work in an almost-out-of-this-world environment? ESA is sponsoring a crewmember with a medical background to spend the Antarctic winter of 2013 in the Concordia research station.
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