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Dragon on board

25 May 2012 The first Dragon commercial space ferry was berthed at the International Space Station today. ESA astronaut André Kuipers and his crewmates welcomed the new cargo ship and will start unloading the supplies and scientific experiments tomorrow.

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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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Simon Kopf shows how diamagnetism works on Earth

Space and science meet online for youngsters

22 May 2012 What happens when your experiment gets over 30 000 views online? Tomorrow’s space explorers were awarded an out-of-this-world scientific exchange with astronauts on the International Space Station last Wednesday.

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André Kuipers: world ambassador Keeping immune cells alive and kicking Terraforming a landscape for a robotic rover

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