January 2022
International cooperation - the key to survival on Earth and in space
...to undertake a programme of internal reform within ESA to help us to implement all our programmes in the most efficient way. Frank De Winne with Materials Science Laboratory hardware in the ISS Kibo laboratory. ISS Russian segment including the Nauka...
March 2016
Time for European visionary goals
This April marked the 55th anniversary of the first human spaceflight into Earth orbit. Those formative decades in the middle of the 20th century saw Europe, still recovering from its recent shattering military past, building its industrial strength...
February 2018
European centre shifts emphasis to deep space missions
... may represent the European contribution to the medical systems for exploration. The author thanks his colleagues Frank De Winne, A. Diekmann, G. Weerts and A. Cowley for their invaluable contribution to this article.
June 2018
Archaeologist of the future
..., Paul Van Hoeydonck, Dirk Frimout, the first Belgian astronaut, Charles Bolden, then director of NASA, and Frank De Winne, the second Belgian astronaut, first European commander of the International Space Station and now director of the...
February 2020
Surviving bacteria in space
... microbial dissemination. Astronauts sample a surface on the Space Station for this microbial culture slide. ESA astronaut, Frank De Winne, collects water samples at the galley in the Zvezda Service Module of the ISS for in-flight analysis. Biofilm...
April 2020
Protecting against the dangers of space radiation
..., which are high-energy protons and heavy ions from outside our solar system. Belgian astronaut Frank De Winne placing some of SCK CEN/DLR radiation detectors inside a Colombus module on the ISS. Radiation carried by the...
