European Service Module team meets Artemis II crew
The Artemis II crew visited the European Space Agency's technical center to meet the engineers who developed the European Service Module. The visit celebrated the successful collaboration and technical precision of the mission's trans-lunar injection.
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From left to right, NASA astronauts Christina Koch, Reid Wiseman and Victor Glover, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, with ESA's European Service Module team behind them at ESTEC.
The four Artemis II astronauts visited ESTEC, ESA’s technical centre in the Netherlands, on 13 July as the first stop in a series of post-flight visits to the European teams that made their mission possible.
The day included a visit to the Eagle mission control room , where ESA and Airbus engineers monitored the European Service Module around the clock throughout Artemis II. There, astronauts met some of the ESA specialists who had supported their flight from Earth.
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