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ESA’s extended reality (XR) lab at the European Astronaut Centre uses virtual, augmented and mixed reality to train astronauts for missions to the International Space Station and beyond. During her internship at the XR lab, Lora-Line Faure developed MIRAGE, or Mixed Interactive Rendering with Gesture recognition for Enhanced hand-tracked LUNA augmented experience. MIRAGE is a mixed reality application that uses a hand-tracking system to visualise and interact with objects in mixed reality. Currently, it aims to be used on Earth for visualisation and training in the ESA-DLR LUNA analogue facility. In the future, this interactive system could also be applied to hand tracking for surface operations using mixed reality displays for astronauts on the Moon.