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to come from super. to be. very close is kind of into active exercise is the hard thing about the devil you don't come slashdot actually and i'm on facebook in the i'm still. in gemini so free with w. 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. lunar missions have taken a backseat for decades but now a new space right. with

. appearances can be deceiving this dusty landscape is not the moon but of all cannick surface on the spanish island of. maui and french astronaut training. a gearing 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. 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. 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 of the month because samples like this could tell you a lot about the moon's composition. this morning when i was with 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 that so much by just 5 minutes away on foot there's a command center this team is practicing how to communicate with the astronauts on the moon the scientists are in the blue tent next to it ground control.

we are seeing side e.v.a.'s she was 1700. so looking good still read about. it on the good. outside journalists awaiting them mainly from the local media they're interested in mathias moua the astronaut. going what i think you know 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 which after all the commotion my own returns to the desolate landscape. been here here when i'm walking on the surface of lanzarote i feel a bit as if i'm on the moon the movement on. i'm really getting to get there 1st 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 they are being tested here to see if they can be improved on a 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. we have so annoying that there's a new race to the moon that's not between the soviet union and the us 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 it's 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 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 material is learning mandarin as well as russian he wants to cooperate with chinese astronauts and eventually fly to their planned space station. of the woman strong who are. both close to you can make beautiful things from plastic. this is what. i think the chinese mentality. your. hand 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 a chinese the words for moon are always the same you know the 1st i thought it was a huge alarm. you know used to record it and i kept saying i wanted to fly to the un on. what i should have said you joe. i've advised if i can see the moon i have to say you're longer down there more like the moonlight is beautiful i have a very low when 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 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 because 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 of. some of the edge that . i was just last month 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 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. and for our folks. here on the virtual new in the sky is the limit. pick one up. and you see how strong i am i was throwing towards us. just got one. i was the missing one i threw right get 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 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. 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 you know thought. to spread the word mauer 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. rank and 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 making d.d.'s schmidt a colleague for me so. i'm on one stoop 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 and blueberries are supposed to be good for the eyes. it's making russian cosmonauts often eat 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

a 2024 hour period 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 be an astronaut mathias melva it's great that you're here welcomed. 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 that people can just put on a headset enjoin 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. 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 presumptious to say that i have such and such percent chance of sort of a plot and so you. know that's 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 and it's important i'm doing what also in russia. and 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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. reads a sex phone operator to her master's thesis on the potato raring to read. not to turn on well it gets more residuals from their. literature list traditionally st. me through them just being on the moon news fall in love with their me. first of all it's beautiful. we've all looked at it since we were children and seen the face in the moon are are we choose to go to the mall. we choose to go to the mall industry again and do the other thing not because they are easy but because they are.