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André Kuipers

Press conference to announce the Soyuz flight of ESA astronaut André Kuipers

André Kuipers receives the congratulations of Dutch Secretary of State Mr J. Wijn

A tour of the ISS User Information Centre at ESTEC

André Kuipers introduces the Microgravity Science Glovebox

Mrs van der Hoeven, Dutch Minister for Education, Culture and Science

ESA astronaut André Kuipers

André Kuipers has been involved in preparing scientific payloads for several space missions

André Kuipers during one of ESA's Parabolic Flight Campaigns

Dutch ESA astronaut André Kuipers

Dutch ESA astronaut André Kuipers

ESA's Gaia will study huge numbers of stars

Planck will look back at the dawn of time

Darwin will combine light from four or five telescopes and send it down to Earth

Integrated optics being developed for the Darwin mission may make Internet faster

Integrated optics are used in this special camera

View of the Golubkina crater on Venus

View of the volcano Sif Mons on Venus

Vue 3D du volcan Sif Mons sur Vénus

The Rosetta Stone, discovered in 1799

The ALICE ultraviolet imaging spectrometer

The Rosetta orbiter - spacecraft design

The nucleus of Comet Halley

An International Enterprise - Companies involved in building the Rosetta Orbiter and the ground antenna

The Optical, Spectroscopic, and Infrared Remote Imaging System

The Micro-Imaging Dust Analysis System

The Rosetta Orbiter Spectrometer for Ion and Neutral Analysis

To communicate with Earth, Rosetta will use the impressive 35 metre parabolic antenna

The Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer

The Comet Nucleus Sounding Experiment by Radiowave Transmission

Siwa Flyby - Once again, the spacecraft is put back into passive cruise mode on its way to the large asteroid Siwa

Rosetta and its instruments

The Grain Impact Analyser and Dust

Rosetta’s Philae lander descending onto comet nucleus

During its eight-year trek to Comet Wirtanen, Rosetta will bounce around the inner Solar System

The Cometary Secondary Ion Mass

Deep-space hibernation before comet rendezvous

The Rosetta Stone, discovered in 1799

The Rosetta Plasma Consortium

Rosetta orbiting Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

The Microwave Instrument for the Rosetta

Otawara Flyby - The spacecraft goes into passive cruise mode on the way to asteroid Otawara

Rosetta approaching its ultimate destination: Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Relative sizes of Otawara, Siwa and other known asteroids

Rosetta spacecraft - artist's impression

The Rosetta spacecraft without thermal blankets

Rosetta swings by Mars

Manipulation of Rosetta’s Lander at CSG facilities

Rosetta at Europe's Spaceport

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