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Go to topicAfter the joy of seeing the ATV Johannes Kepler successfully rendezvous with the International Space Station on 24 February, the ISS astronauts have been unloading Europe's space freighter. One of the first things they searched for was food and particularly the pizzas! Now docked to the ISS for several months, the ATV has already reboosted the orbital complex once and will do so again several times before leaving.