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How to build a village on the Moon

The head of the European Space Agency says he would like to build a permanent base on the Moon. We meet him to discuss that incredible plan, and head to the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne to mee

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UK astronaut Tim Peake films the British Isles from the ISS

British astronaut Tim Peake films a sparkling United Kingdom from space as the International Space Station (ISS) flies over the English Channel.

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Europe launches Sentinel-3A satellite to help track global warming

Europe has launched a satellite it is hoped will help predict climate change patterns as well as improve everyday weather forecasting. The

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First part of new space 'data highway' blasts off from Kazakhstan

A new space “data highway” has taken a giant leap forward. The first building block of the European Data Relay Satellite (EDRS), a node, has blasted

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Scientists predict big things for the tiny CubeSat: 'a satellite in a shoe box'

Tiny satellites the size of a small cube, jam-packed with the most advanced nanotechnologies: is this the future of Space missions? To find out, we

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How the Challenger disaster changed space exploration forever

It was the disaster that injected a shot of realism into space exploration ambitions and whose impact is still being felt today. Thirty years ago the

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Happy New Year from space

Astronauts from the International Space Station, Americans Scott Kelly and Tim Kopra and Briton Tim Peake have wished a Happy New Year to everybody

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The Astronaut Academy: 'This thin blue line makes our planet livable'

Belgian ESA astronaut Frank De Winne is one of the few people who's seen what planet Earth looks like as a whole during his six months on the ISS.

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Europe's LISA Pathfinder begins search for ripples in space

A rocket carrying a European prototype satellite has blasted off from French Guiana. The trailblazing Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, or

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Launch of LISA Pathfinder now set for Thursday morning

The delayed launch of the European Space Agency’s LISA Pathfinder mission has now been set. Officials have announced that liftoff will now be on

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LISA Pathfinder to seek out Einstein's gravity waves, reveal true universe

From the Guiana spaceport near Kourou, just five degrees north of the equator, our correspondent Claudio Rosmino waited with baited breath for

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LISA Pathfinder's mission poised to discover the secrets of gravity

The European Space Agency’s LISA Pathfinder mission, originally scheduled to lift off from French Guyana in the early hours of December 2, has been

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Tim Peake on what happens if things go wrong on ISS

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Rosetta and Philae celebrate a year of success for ESA

A year on from Rosetta and Philae's exploits, ESA's historic comet lander mission nears its end

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Rosetta mission finds oxygen on comet 67P

The Rosetta mission has detected oxygen on comet 67P, a discovery that could change our understanding of how the solar system formed.

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Unlocking the secrets of the Jupiter's Icy Moons

In this edition of Space we set a course for Jupiter, destination of the next European Space Agency mission JUICE. The aim of JUICE (JUpiter ICy moon

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Prepare to take-off - training the best to be better

What is the next best thing to going into space? For some perhaps it is being in charge of those preparing to blast-off into the skies. Gerhard

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Moonstruck: ESA and Russia to launch new mission

The European and Russian space agencies are to send a lander to an unexplored area at the Moon’s south pole. It will be one of a series of missions

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The Astronaut Academy: 'Things float. and you float.'

“Living and working in space can be a challenge, because things float, and you float. Which is a lot of fun of course, but you have to get used to

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Rosetta mission: Crunch time for Philae

The Rosetta mission has changed our vision of comets and given us a new outlook on the origin of life in the universe. In this edition of Space, we