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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Shaun the Sheep has been assigned a seat on the Artemis I mission, which will be the first flight of NASA’s Orion spacecraft with an ESA European Service Module, planned to go around the Moon and back. Astronauts of all sheeps and sizes must go through the same training, and here is Shaun on the special Airbus ‘Zero G’ A310 aircraft during one of its parabolic flights in 2019. These flights recreate 'weightless’ conditions similar to those experienced in space.