Contract with DLR for Columbus Control Centre

On 31 March at Oberpfaffenhofen, near Munich, Germany, ESA Director of Human Spaceflight Mr Jörg Feustel-Büechl…

ESA Studies Missions to Safeguard the Earth

Early on the morning of 30 June 1908, the vast forest of western Siberia was illuminated…

Parabolic flights

The only way to get away from the sensation and effects of gravity is to give…

Pasteur to Search for Life on Mars

Are we alone, or is there life beyond Earth? Has life ever existed on Mars? The…

ESA’s free-fall laboratory poised to escape

This ‘Zero-G’ Airbus A300 parked on the tarmac at Bordeaux-Merignac Airport is really a laboratory with…

New look for ESA Human Spaceflight web site

ESA’s Human Spaceflight web site has today been relaunched with a whole new design. All the…

Rosetta mission, a status report

Following the failure of Ariane Flight 157 in December, with the loss of two spacecraft, ESA…

Another piece of Europe in your pocket

Health-care experts met in Barcelona last weekend to discuss what an EU press release describes as…

Mars Express leaves for Baikonur

Mars Express, the first European spacecraft to visit the planet Mars, has completed its tests at…

Europe to the Moon, the Moon for Europe

The European Space Agency will present its SMART-1 lunar mission to the press on 3 April…