February 2016
200 Days in Space: Living in Orbit
... life, the universe and everything! And our motto was, of course, ‘Don’t panic’. The Columbus laboratory is our piece of Europe in space. It’s the laboratory of ESA and here we have various items of science equipment for different experiments across...
August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
...which is still not 60 years old. This relates, in particular, to the development of infrastructure elements, which include the Columbus Laboratory, the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) and the European Service Module for NASA’s Orion spacecraft. More...
January 2022
International cooperation - the key to survival on Earth and in space
... become fully professional astronauts. Frank De Winne shows Luxembourg Deputy Prime Minister Etienne Schneider a mock-up of Europe s Columbus laboratory on the ISS at EAC. During your stay in space, for you personally, what were the most positive...
08 December 2020
First ever COVID-19 drug research in space through ICE Cubes
...this mission, Hungarian companies InnoStudio Inc. and CycloLab Cyclodextrin R&D Laboratory Ltd. will incubate the remdesivir-based medicament Veklury® for ...ICE Cubes Facility, managed by Space Applications Services, in ESA’s Columbus laboratory.
July 2014
Why become a cosmonaut? To preserve knowledge
... knowledge that they obtain together during the preparation for a spaceflight. Astronaut John Olivas works on the Columbus laboratory module, part of maintenance on the International Space Station during the six-hour, 35-minute space walk As a result...
