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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NASA astronaut Clay Andersen with ANITA on the International Space Station.
The Analysing Interferometer for Ambient Air (ANITA) flight experiment was an ESA developed technology demonstrator for monitoring the quality of the air inside spacecraft.
The Space Shuttle Endeavour carried ANITA to the Space Station in the SpaceHab Module during flight STS 118 (ISS mission 13A.1) which was launched on 9 August 2007. ANITA was installed in EXPRESS rack #4, located in the US Destiny laboratory.