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tragic reality behind the exploited. starts july 24th. the good. ones 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. new missions have taken a backseat for decades but now a new spice. ok we're shooting for.

stable. appearances can be deceiving this dusty landscape is not the moon but a volcanic surface on the spanish island of. location where we have some. from your love affair. and french astronaut training. a gear in 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 mera does make it to the moon he'll need to be able to identify everything he sees. and i think. that's the beauty of a. 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. going on this in the volcano 2 days ago. but also. doesn't mean it's all a dream it's 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 one of the more because samples like this could tell you a lot about the moon's composition. would you also miss the hope of course is that someday i might find a great stone or sample like this on the moon and i feel that 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 side e.v.a.'s she will 1700. looking still read about. them on the good. outside journalists awaiting them mainly from the local media they're interested in mathias moua the astronaut. that are going to look at the go here 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. 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 version of that some more laws of 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 they've been tested here to see if they can be improved on the new 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 so various countries have realized that they can seize and create an economic advantage given the 1st ones who can get there will make the rules but not to 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 our. you know. china is investing heavily in space travel so is learning mandarin as well as russian he wants to cooperate with chinese astronauts and eventually fly to their planned space station. woman from who are you chose from that you can make beautiful things from plastic. this is what. the chinese mentality. young through your. door p.o. younger than she herself and 2 years ago model went to china for some training everything

took place in mentoring. did you hear the d. or that she was shiny is the words for moon are always the same you and i 1st i thought it was you long. you know used to i kept saying i wanted to fly to the un on a side note i should have said you troll. that was if i can see the moon i have to say you long like the moonlight is beautiful i love it when 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 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 no closer to 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. so the. other stuff was man this is what you need very often when you're doing evy a training ground 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 the walk. these aren't 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 now is practicing how to use the technology on the moon. very very very much. here on the virtual noon the sky's the limit. pick that one up. and you see how strong i am other throw it towards. the scouts i want your boy was the missing one i survived get dangerous. it is left with so much training what is the biggest drawbacks of life as an astronaut. drawbacks there aren't any it's kind don't feel like i'm missing out on anything i'm really enjoying it because for me every day is different and the days

are long and intense but 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. leave it there 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 think of. to spread the word maori 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 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 a so. i'm one stupid macadamia please and one blueberry cream you know. so you know so what's his favorite flavor of coconut but there isn't any today. this is blueberry ice cream in 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 a how's it look with our as a 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 berlin planetarium to help convince politicians and business leaders to support the moon mission. and he might be there to be an astronaut mathias it's great that you're here welcomed. please complete this sentence i'm glad that people are going back to the moon because that's when 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. yes and 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 i think that's one of the that'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 and supporters i'm going also in russia. i'm not will depend on government policy in november he says council of ministers will decide whether to pump money into the race till then mathias mara will continue to dream of being the next person to set foot on the moon.

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