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Go to topicSchoolchildren gathered at FEZ-Berlin, a youth and family leisure and learning centre in Berlin, Germany, were recently treated to a TV show unlike any other they will have seen before. For the hour-long show, 3-D TV images were broadcast to Berlin live from ESA's Erasmus Centre, in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.
Gathered in the space learning department at FEZ-Berlin, the children wore special glasses to convert the TV images into a full 3-D TV experience. During the live link-up between Noordwijk and Berlin, they heard all about the peculiarities of living and working on the International Space Station (ISS).