Luxembourg Deputy Prime Minister Etienne Schneider paid a special visit to ESA’s European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany, on Friday 18 October where he expressed commitment to strengthening international collaboration in the field of space resources and innovation alongside ESA Director General Jan Wörner.
Here is is seen outside the centre's Neutral Buoyancy Facility (NBF) – a 10 m deep pool used to train astronauts to carry out extravehicular activity in space.