It will be years before the European Space Agency can send one of its astronauts to the moon, but the agency says it’s time to start practicing as it opened a facility in Germany that will let astronauts train in conditions like those on the lunar surface.
Astronauts Thomas Pesquet of France and Matthias Maurer of Germany and their canine-like robot demonstrate their training in lunar surface simulating conditions for future moon missions, like the Artemis lunar exploration program led by NASA, at the opening of the new LUNA facility at the Europe an Astronaut Center in Cologne, Germany , Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024.
In a pre-opening briefing, ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst said the facility will offer “most aspects that we will encounter on the moon.” “We need to prepare for the moon because currently we are only flying to low-Earth orbit to the International Space Station,” said ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer. “But the next missions will bring us to the moon.”
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