Follow CAVES 2012

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An international crew of six astronauts trained for a caving adventure designed to prepare them for spaceflight. Training started on Sunday and continued to Friday 7 September, when they entered the Italian caves and spent six days underground.

Follow Andreas Mogensen, David Saint-Jacques, Soichi Noguchi, Mike Fincke, Drew Feustel and Nikolai Tikhonov through regular updates on Twitter, YouTube and Flickr. ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen posted regular updates on ESA’s astronaut blog.

Follow the links to the right for twitter and the astronaut blog.

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CAVES crew 2012

Andreas Mogensen, European Space AgencyAndreas was selected as an ESA astronaut in 2009, a couple of years after receiving a doctorate in aerospace engineering.Andreas has worked as a drilling services ...

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ARHIVIRANA VSEBINA: 23 NOV. 2012

Astronauts bring back new life

It is not every day that astronauts can claim to return to Earth with a new species of life. But when the astronauts on ESA’s CAVES underground training course returned to the surface they were carrying a special type of woodlouse.

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ARHIVIRANA VSEBINA: 20 SEP. 2012

Cavenauts return to Earth

The international team of astronauts taking part in ESA’s caving adventure have returned to Earth after spending six days underground. The voyage to the surface of our planet took them five hours from basecamp.

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ARHIVIRANA VSEBINA: 11 SEP. 2012

Going underground

ESA’s CAVES training programme began its second phase last Friday as six astronauts ventured into the Sardinian caves in Italy that are their home this week. CAVES mimics elements of spaceflight to prepare astronauts and trainers for the real thing.

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ARHIVIRANA VSEBINA: 27 AVG. 2012

Astronauts searching for life – underground

Astronauts dream of finding new life and for a select crew that dream might be within reach this week - albeit deep underground instead of in outer space.

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