Spheres finals ISS

Astronauts Don Pettit (left) and André Kuipers (right) watch as two SPHERES robots perform their operations as part of the SPHERES Zero-Robotics tournament.

On Earth former astronaut Thomas Reiter, ESA Director of Human Spaceflight and Operations, addressed students at the Massachusets Institute of Technology (MIT) from ESTEC. The students in Europe could follow an event at MIT including talks from five astronauts: Greg Chamitoff, Jeffrey Hoffman, Leland Melvin, John Grunsfeld and space tourist Richard Garriott.