This video compilation of historical and background footage, and interviews, celebrates the 10th anniversary of ESA's European Astronaut Centre (EAC), located in Cologne, Germany. EAC, opened on 10 May 1990, provides training and medical support to ESA astronauts on the ground and during missions.
The European astronaut corps have participated in 31 space missions, from the early Soviet Salyut stations to Russia's Mir, and through cooperation with NASA, on 17 Space Shuttle flights. For the International Space Station, crews will attend EAC for training in the operation of the ESA contribution to ISS: the Columbus Laboratory, the Automated Transfer Vehicle and a number of payload facilities for scientific experiments.
Contents are arranged as follows:
gvs' astronaut tours EAC, Cologne; COF (Columbus Orbital Facility); Mir simulator; Haignere inspects spacesuit exhibit; gvs' neutral buoyancy training pool, EAC; gvs' Thomas Reiter trains in COF simulator; graphic of the International Space Station (ISS); footag

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10:00:00 opening titles/main title
10:00:35 menu
10:00:45 caption: gvs astronaut tours EAC, Cologne, Germany
10:00:50 ws ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter enters EAC building
10:01:02 gvs Jean-Pierre Haignere is shown various simulators
10:01:34 ms COF [Columbus Orbital Facility] simulator
10:01:38 mls Mir simulator
10:01:43 gvs Haignere inspects spacesuit exhibit
10:01:59 caption: gvs neutral buoyancy training pool, EAC
10:02:04 gvs training on COF simulator in neutral buoyancy training pool
10:02:21 caption: gvs ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter training in the COF simulator at EAC
10:02:26 gvs Thomas Reiter computer training in COF simulator
10:03:11 caption: graphic: The International Space Station
10:03:16 graphic of the International Space Station
10:03:34 caption: Archive: gvs the STS-103 Hubble Repair Mission, 1999
10:03:39 gvs ESA astronauts Jean-Francois Clervoy and Claude Nicollier onboard the STS-103 Hubble Repair Mission [spacewalks at (11)]
10:04:10 caption: Archive: gvs the STS-95 Mission, 1998
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