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leg . mathias morrow wants to go to the moon 50 years after the 1st lunar landing he's training to be one of the next astronauts to set foot on the moon and maybe the 1st european ever. flew missions have taken a back seat for decades but now a new space race is brewing. if you didn't.

get. a. good stable with. appearances can be deceiving this dusty landscape is not the moon but a volcanic surface on the spanish island of land. where we have some basic. live from your original lava field below grade black. and french astronaut training are they step or not i giving up for the next moon landing or they're testing special equipment and gathering igneous rock which is similar to that found on the moon if mathias marah does make it to the moon he'll need to be able to identify everything he sees. well it would have the effect and i think. that's the beauty of. this is what i was

looking for. when i walk on the moon there will be many rocks there are rocks all around us. i know why should i bring this one and not the others well that's part of my training doesn't. go on this in a volcano 2 days ago. but also. doesn't mean it's all of being a mineral that comes from deep underground from close to the earth's mantle and there this month was the geologists are really keen on making a discovery like this on the moon of the moon because samples like this could tell you a lot about the moon's composition. this morning as well the awfulness the hope of course is that someday i might find a great stone or sample like this on the moon and i feel. so much by just 5 minutes away on foot there's a command center this team is practicing how to communicate with astronauts on the moon and the scientists are in the blue tent next to it ground control.

we are seeing sight even a single $1700.00. m. . looking to recover because they're out on the good. outside journalists awaiting them mainly from the local media they're interested in mathias moua the astronauts. are going to look at the yes that you've been able he recently tweeted life isn't always fair my 2 good friends did all the hard work and only i got the attention which after all the commotion my own returns to the desolate landscape. been here. when i'm walking on the surface of. them i feel a bit as if i'm on the moon the moon on. i'm really getting to get their measurement off that some more laws but i can tell from the technology that it's still a long way off we've still got to learn a lot improve

a lot. mouse is 49 he was born a year after the 1st moon landing some of these scoops state back to the apollo mission they are being tested here to see if they can be improved on. the way. it's been decades since astronauts have practiced a lunar landing. it had gone out of fashion for a time but now interest has revived all over the world the astronaut center in cologne germany is part of the european space agency. we have the north and there's a new race to the moon that's not between the soviet union and the u.s. like 50 years ago you know i'm going on this is much more of an economic race it's about being the 1st to fly to the moon the 1st to achieve dominance in space. various countries have realized that they can seize and create an economic advantage given in the 1st ones who can get there will make the rules that the u.s.

of course wants to be 1st and stake its claim for the with china has taken them on and they want to land on the moon by 2030 and also to build their own space station that's one of. china is investing heavily in space travel. in mandarin as well as russian he wants to cooperate with chinese astronauts and eventually fly to their planned space station. you can make beautiful things from plastic. this is what. the chinese mentality. you're. studio. door pianka don't she herself and 2 years ago moto went to china for some training

everything took place in man during. the day or the ocean a chinese the words for moon are always the same you're in the 1st i thought it was you know you don't you just kept saying i wanted to fly to the us. i thought i should have said you joe. i suppose if i can see the moon i have to say you along like the moonlight is beautiful i love anyone i say i want to fly there i have to say you troll right. ok. the chinese space capsule will have a white limit for astronauts 75 kilos so fitness is a key part of training this isn't typically this is a typical exercise that prepares you for space my space suit is so tight that you can practically only use your arms when there's a risk of injuring your shoulder muscles when it's closer to fight us and so we do

special exercises to strengthen all the tiny muscles not the big ones which i also don't have right now but the tiny ones on the inside. and some of the hunchbacked. so there. is there. i was just last month this is what you need very often when you're doing evy a training grant is important internal pressure is 0.4 bar so just moving my hands takes the same effort is trying to squeeze a tennis ball then we practice by taking heavy weights and walking around it's called the farm walk and so on walk. these on special exercises to ensure that astronauts are fit for the moon they still have to be developed these exercises were designed for the international space station mauer will most likely be going there soon but he still has his

sights set on the moon. next stop is virtual new reality is practicing how to use the technology on the moon. if i were. here on the virtual noon over the sky's the limit. then picked up one up. and see how strong i am i would throw it towards the earth. describe what. i was amazingly through right get dangerous. to the left but with so much training what is the biggest drawbacks of life as an astronaut. drawbacks there aren't any it's kind of don't feel like i'm missing out on anything i'm really enjoying it for me every day is different since the days are

long and intense i put in more hours than an ordinary 40 hour work week but i enjoy it and i have the right to say it's getting to be too much but i enjoy it and it's a really interesting job. i love talking about it telling people what the training entails how we're preparing for the future. even telling people how important it is and sparking their enthusiasm. what we're doing these next 10 years will determine what directions things will take in space and who will come out on top so to speak before we europeans have to be part of it you know thought the odds of a pair. to spread the word mara does a lot of a travel to training sessions in china or norway or to a p.r. event in spain but today in berlin he takes the bus instead of a taxi. think of him as an astronaut so my carbon footprint is bad enough as it is .

that's how it is. that's. in the evening he has a little time off well almost like he's making d.d.'s schmidt a colleague for me so. i'm on one scoop of macadamia please and one blueberry cream you know. so and so what's his favorite flavor of the coconut but there isn't any today. this is blueberry ice cream blueberries are supposed to be good for the eyes. it's making russian cosmonauts often eat blueberries in the station it can hurt things i wish i didn't think of it i mean. it's a how's it look with our council this november. and that's a lot of changing of course the americans are no longer planning for 2028 but for

2024 years now that it's going along. we need to make sure germans are involved also. germany and europe want to be a part of the u.s. is ambitious plan to send people to the moon by 2024. mathias mera is that a 1000000000 planetarium to help convince politicians and business leaders to support the moon mission. and he might be there to the astronaut to mathias mel that it's great that you're here well can i. please completely sentence i'm glad that people are going back to the moon because i see them because it will be an amazing adventure and not only for astronauts. with the right technology we can bring everyone along using virtual 3 d. technology that people can just put on a headset and join us when we explore the moon. and everyone here agrees they all

want to go to the moon but what america's real chances of landing on the moon. there are 7 active astronauts in the european astronaut corps so you could say that i have a one in 7 chance. but i think it's a bit presumptuous to say that i have such and such percent chance of sort of a plot and. there's something you have to work towards about over the next few years i'll have to work hard to make sure i'm in the pool of candidates in some quarters i'm going also. i'm not will depend on government policy in november isa's council of ministers will decide whether to pump money into the race till then mathias merril will continue to dream of being the next person to set foot on the moon.

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a home for saving google in 2 years tell stories of creative people and innovative projects around the world ideas that protect the climate and boost green energy solutions and global ideas be embodied in series of global 3000 on t.w. and online. i mean. just being on the moon you use fall in love with it let me play. a among the stars 1st of all it's beautiful. we've been looking at it since we were children and seen the face in the moon are we go to the moon. we choose to go to the mall industry again and do the other thing not because they are easy but because they are.