Training facilities

The ESA training facilities provide training opportunities for Station astronauts for all ESA systems, subsystems and payloads for nominal, off-nominal, repair and maintenance operations in stand-alone, combined and integrated training. The training facilities must support Station-system interface training and stand-alone, integrated and joint-integrated operations simulations.

Training in Europe is based primarily at the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) with support from the Control Centres and various industrial sites and user centres in Europe. The training facilities described below are located in Europe unless specifically stated.