journey into space don't forget you can always get all the latest news and information around the clock on our website d.w. dot com i'm miles waiter in berlin and thank you so much for joining us. it's been 15 years since the. sheep was the 1st man to walk on the. hardware. as a small boy he dreamed of the stars. so what he saw the same no matter how to. church or go to the mall.

this mass trying to be took part in the greatest adventure in history. armstrong was his destiny starts july 20th on t.w. . 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. lunar missions have taken a backseat for decades but now a new space rice is growing. like a. good

stable with. appearances can be deceiving this dusty landscape is not the moon but a volcanic surface on the spanish island of. maui and french astronaut training. gearing up for the next moon landing are they testing special equipment and gathering igneous rock which is similar to that found on the moon if mathias mera does make it to the moon he'll need to be able to identify everything he sees. perfect and i think. that's the beauty of. this is what i was looking for but 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. on this in the volcano 2 days ago. but also. doesn't mean it's all a being is a mineral that comes from deep underground from close to the earth's mantle and there this month this was the geologists are really keen on making a discovery like this on the moon of the month because samples like this could tell you a lot about the moon's composition. this morning. what you offer with 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 the scientists are in the blue tent next to it ground control.

we are seeing sight even a single $1700.00. looking still we're going to read it out on the good. outside journalists awaiting them mainly from the local media they're interested in mathias moua the astronauts. that are going to look at the go here stan 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. i feel a bit as if i'm on the moon the movement on. i'm really getting to get there one after that some more laws but i can tell from the technology that it's still

a long way off and we've still got to learn a lot improve a lot from our is 49 he was born a year after the 1st moon landing some of these scoops state back to the apollo mission are being tested here to see if they can be improved on and we are in agreement with 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 a so we have so annoying that 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. by 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 or 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 so much his manner is learning mandarin as well as russian he wants to cooperate with chinese astronauts and eventually fly to their planned space station . moments from. you can make beautiful things from plastic. this is what. the chinese mentality. your. friend or p.r. younger than she herself and 2 years ago mao to went to china for some training

everything took place in man during. the day or the ocean in chinese the words for moon are always the same you're the 1st i thought it was a huge. you know years to record it and i kept saying i wanted to fly to the u.n. on i thought i should have said you joe. 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. ok. the chinese space capsule will have a white limit for astronauts 75 kilos so fitness is a key part of training. this is a typical exercise that prepares you for space a 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 the cause of the fight as well

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. has 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 sam walk. and these aren't special exercises to insure 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 this soon but he still has his sights

set on the moon. next stop is virtual non-reality now is practicing how to use the technology on the moon . here on the virtual news in the sky is the limit. pick that one up. and see how strong. i was throw it towards. the scots i want. i was the missing link i provided dangerous. to the left with so much training what is the biggest drawbacks of life as an astronaut. drawbacks there aren't any it's kind be i don't feel like i'm missing out on anything i'm really enjoying it i mean every day is different and 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. then 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. to spread the word mao or does a lot of air 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 meeting d.h. schmidt a colleague from me so. i'm on one stupid macadamia please and one blueberry cream and you know. so and so what's his favorite flavor coconut but there isn't any today. this is blueberry ice cream and blueberries are supposed to be good for the eyes. it's making russian cosmonauts awfully blueberries in the station it can't hurt. i wish i didn't think of it i mean. it's an 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 out there it's going along so. 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 a 1000000000 planetarium to help convince politicians and business leaders to support the moon mission. and he might be there to see astronauts mathias melba it's great that you're here well can you. please complete this 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 people can just put on a headset and join us when we explore the moon. everyone here agrees they all want

to go to the moon but what america's real chances of landing on the moon. if you think 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. though that something you have to work towards over the next few years i'll have to work hard to make sure i'm in the pool of candidates in some quarters that i did when i was here in russia. are not will depend on government policy in november he says council of ministers will decide whether to pump money into the rice till then mathias mara will continue to dream of being the next person to set foot on the moon.

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