Looked great from the Boeing Mission Control Center (BMCC). Such a fantastic day! 🚀 #Starliner

Polar stratosphericclouds over northern Norway 💫

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#ICYMI .

🌐 #DYK that with European satnav system #Galileo you can locate yourself within an A4 paper sheet?🤯

Galileo, with satellites 23,222 km above, commits to 2 m accuracy, but it often outperforms, boasting under 1 m precision! High Accuracy Service takes it up a notch, offering 20…

A space mission doesn't end at splashdown 💦🪂

Health was in focus for Andreas Mogensen's Huginn mission; understanding how the human body handles long-duration missions in space🔬🧪

Samples and data are still to be analysed by the science teams on Earth to bring more knowledge…

As #Earth Day2024 Day comes to a close here in Texas, we the #Starliner CFT crew, including me, the backup are just starting quarantine for a May 6th Launch. The space program is about making life on #Earth better and we are honored to play our parts. I'd like to share this…

Mathematicians have the tools to explore worlds of 2, 3 and 5+ dimensions. But the fourth dimension remains mysterious and elusive. Topologists are trying to change that, one problem at a time. Jordana Cepelewicz reports: quantamagazine.org/mathematicians…

📷 Check out our #WeekInImages 15-19 April 2024 👉 esa.int/About_Us/Week_…

Honored to be with Leland Melvin, Bubba Wallace and 23XI Racing at the Talladega Superspeedway Speedway talking about the human and technological similarities between NASCAR and space exploration. This is #Space4All ! AIAA Leidos Women in Aerospace

No big deal, just a deer scoring a goal then celebrating..😲

With just 2 days to go, a big shoutout to Katherine Bennell-Pegg from Australian Space Agency, training with our European Space Agency astronaut candidates for a year 👩‍🚀👨‍🚀 Next Monday, they'll all receive astronaut certification together. Ready for liftoff! 🎓🚀

🎧 Tune in to our #ESAExplores podcast to hear…

Good morning! How are you feeling? So grateful I could sleep in this morning. It’s been an intense few days. I’m brimming with ideas and questions about #EnergyFromSpace … Now just to wrangle 3 days into 1 conference summary. Eep! #StayBright

Ready to fly 👨‍🚀👩‍🚀

Our European Space Agency astronaut candidates took several flights on Air ZeroG ✈️ this week, experiencing the feeling of weightlessness during the parabolic flight paths to prepare them for moving around on the International International Space Station 🛫🛬

This was their final training…

Google meteorites for a surprise.

On April 5, 2008, the Japanese spacecraft Kaguya captured this full Earth-rise over the Moon limb in high resolution

[📹 JAXA]

🏅 We are very pleased that NASA has awarded the safety lead of our European Service Module team the prestigious Exceptional Service Medal, a testament to the hard work of the entire team throughout the years 🌑🙌

Congratulations to the teams bringing us #ForwardToTheMoon 🥳

ESA’s technical expertise – which spans many decades – perfectly complements the European Commission’s political mandate to develop flagship space programmes that address the needs of European citizens and businesses. ESA has proposed three ‘accelerators’ – recent initiatives…

What an honour to have had not one, but two royal delegations at #ESTEC as HM King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands and HM King Felipe VI of Spain visited the technical heart of ESA in Noordwijk today.

📷HM King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands and HM King Felipe VI of Spain visited #ESTEC , the technical heart of ESA, in Noordwijk today, 18 April 2024, hosted by ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher and Head of ESTEC/Director of ESA Technology Dietmar Pilz. They were accompanied…

Are you ready for an out-of-this-world graduation? 🎓🎉

It's been a year since our astronaut candidates began their basic training at European Space Agency's European Astronaut Centre 👩‍🚀👨‍🚀💫
On 22 April, Adenot Sophie, Pablo Álvarez, Rosemary Coogan, Raphaël Liégeois, Marco Sieber, and…