#FirstpostAmerica: European Space Agency Launches Military-Grade Programme Amid Global Tensions Europe has approved its biggest-ever space budget, allocating €22.1bn (about $23.9bn) to the European Space Agency and launching its first explicitly military-grade programme. The new European Resilience from Space project will build a military-grade surveillance network in space, pooling national satellites to provide secure communications, navigation and earth-observation services. Funding was drive

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Exactly 25 years ago, at 09:21 GMT/10:21 CET, on 2 November 2000, the era of continuous human presence on the International Space Station began. Since Crew One took up residence in 2000, 21 ESA astronauts have lived and worked on this orbital outpost, conducting essential research to benefit life on Earth. (👏 Umberto Guidoni, Claudie Haigneré, Hans Schlegel, Thomas Reiter, Léopold Eyharts, Pedro Duque, Roberto Vittori, Philippe Perrin, Frank De Winne, André Kuipers, Christer Fuglesang, Paolo Ne

How to astronauts get haircuts in space? ✂️ Watch our astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti getting a quick trim aboard the International Space Station. The preferred tool: hair scissors and a vacuum device which captures the hair clippings and prevents them from floating away! 📹 @europeanspaceagecny 📸 ESA/NASA | ESA - European Space Agency