The European Space Agency (ESA) is Europe’s gateway to space. Its mission is to shape the development of Europe’s space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world.
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Some food that ESA astronaut André Kuipers ate on the International Space Station during his PromISSe mission. He was the tenth astronaut to follow the special SOLO diet to understand why astronauts lose bone density in space. For five days, André ate only a third of the salt found in a normal diet. The results may offer insights into how bones age on Earth and could be used to combat diseases such as osteoporosis.