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1. April 2008

Answering challenges of life in extreme environments research – The CAREX Project kicked-off

42 European Experts in the field of life in extreme environments research met on March 18, in the British Antarctic Survey offices in Cambridge (UK) to officially kick off the CAREX project (Coordination Action for Research Activities on life in Extreme Environments). Life in Extreme Environments...
Category: Space, Media Centre, Homepage, Press Releases 2008

5. November 2007

Columbus launch puts space law to the test

Whose law will apply when Europe’s Columbus space laboratory joins the US-led International Space Station in December? And what happens if astronauts from different countries get into a fight? Those were two of the questions posed at a meeting in Vienna last month to examine the contributions made...
Category: Hum, Space, Media Centre, Homepage, Press Releases 2007

2. November 2007

Space Exploration 3.0 about to begin

Space exploration is about to enter a third age where nations will cooperate to explore the solar system.Nicolas Peter, a research fellow at the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI), told the meeting in Vienna that the era of launching space missions to bolster national prestige was long past and...
Category: Hum, Space, Media Centre, Homepage, Press Releases 2007

19. October 2007

Make space for the humanities, says the ‘Vienna Vision’

Representatives from both the sciences and the humanities will present a joint vision on the future of humans in space at an international conference in Italy later this month. The ‘Vienna Vision on Humans in Outer Space’, to be launched at the International Lunar Exploration Working Group...
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13. September 2007

Space scientists, humanist scholars to explore outer space from new perspective

Space agencies and scientists are tirelessly working to make manned missions back to the Moon and then onwards to Mars a reality. The technologies involved are awe-inspiring, but what challenges do historians, philosophers or sociologists expect us to face in an era of interplanetary exploration...
Category: Space, Hum, Media Centre, Homepage, Press Releases 2007

31. May 2007

European meeting in Athens fuels future space exploration missions to Mars, Moon

A European Science Foundation (ESF)-led workshop sponsored by the European Space Agency (ESA) has enabled 88 scientists from 11 European countries to agree on science goals for future Europe’s planetary exploration programme; providing the continent with an ambitious roadmap to examine Mars and the...
Category: Space, Media Centre, Homepage, Press Releases 2007

23. April 2007

New Chair of ESSC

The Governing Council of the European Science Foundation (ESF) announced its endorsement of Professor Jean-Pierre Swings as the new Chair of the European Space Sciences Committee (ESSC) today. He is set to replace Professor Gerhard Harendel who will end his term as Chair on 10 May 2007. A Search...
Category: Space, Homepage, Media Centre, Press Releases 2007

3. April 2007

Aurora Space Exploration Programme’s proposal mulls take off in May

Scientists working with the European Science Foundation (ESF) are putting the finishing touches to an ambitious programme of research for the exploration of the Moon and Mars. They expect to publish their proposals in May.   The Aurora Programme was set up by the European Space Agency (ESA) in...
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26 March 2008

 

Call for Expressions of Interest: Humans in Outer Space

During 2007, the European Science Foundation (ESF) has set up the first comprehensive trans-disciplinary dialogue on humans in outer space. This dialogue goes further than regarding humans as better-than-robot tools for exploration. It investigates the human quest for odysseys beyond Earth’s atmosphere and reflects on the implications of the findings of extraterrestrial life.

ESF’s Standing Committee for the Humanities together with ESF’s Expert Committee on Space Sciences have identified the topic as an area for cross-disciplinary collaboration, that should be addressed through a broad European approach. The main purpose of this call for Expressions of Interest is to identify key challenging topics from any discipline in this area and investigate the best ways to explore them.

 

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