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International Space Station: partnerships and assembly timeline

Artemis II rocket back at its launchpad after a second rollout at NASA's Kennedy Space Center

Dining on the Space Station: infographic

Types of food in space: infographic

The space menu: infographic

Gateway blueprint

First picture from Cupola by ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot during the εpsilon mission

Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS; Nov 2025)

Path of comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS)

ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot is seen preparing for an EchoFinder session aboard the International Space Station during the εpsilon mission.

ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot and NASA astronaut Jack Hathaway are seen preparing for an EchoFinder session aboard the International Space Station during the εpsilon mission.

Space Station visiting vehicles

Fictional planet Persephone

Preparing for a spacewalk

Out in space during a spacewalk

Coming back: Spacewalk infographic

EMU spacesuit

Spacewalk spacesuits infographic

Temperatures on the Space Station

ESA astronauts on the International Space Station

A cosmic ray simulator for extreme science on Earth

Sophie Adenot pour la journée internationale des droits des femmes

Earth to Mars trajectories for radiation study

Radiation doses on the way to Mars

Smile's first glimpse of French Guiana

Drone view of MN Colibri boat carrying Smile arriving in French Guiana

Bird's-eye view of Smile's ride to French Guiana

Smile arrives at Europe's Spaceport

Smile team sees land after two weeks at sea

Smile exits the boat that carried it to French Guiana

Smile unboxing at Europe's Spaceport

Smile unboxed at Europe's Spaceport

From space to your plate

Through the Cupola: Sophie Adenot photographs the Solar Array Wings

ESA's Lunar Link telecommunications antenna for the Gateway station during a testing campaign at prime contractor Thales Alenia Space in Cannes, France

Mars Express and ExoMars TGO probe Mars’s atmosphere

A view from above: an ancient crater in Arabia Terra

Where on Mars is Trouvelot Crater?

Trouvelot Crater from above

Counting craters in Mars’s ancient highlands

Trouvelot Crater on Mars in 3D

Topographic map of Trouvelot Crater on Mars

Recycling water on the ISS: Water

Bird’s-eye view of Trouvelot Crater

Recycling water on the ISS: Fun facts

Recycling water on the ISS: How it works, part 1

Recycling water on the ISS: How it works, part 2

Euclid’s wide view of the Cat's Eye Nebula

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