if. appearances can be deceiving this dusty landscape is not the moon but a volcanic surface on the spanish island. and french astronaut training. 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. 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. on this in the volcano 2 days ago. but also. doesn't mean it's all a being a mineral that comes from deep underground from close to the earth's mantle it's got us in there this. was the geologists are really keen on making a discovery like this on the moon of the moment because samples like this could tell you a lot about the moon's composition. or 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 astronauts on the moon the scientists are in the blue tent next to it ground control. we are seeing side e.v.a.'s 2 will 1700. so looking still read about. it 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 kohistani of the name 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 moonscape. been here here when i'm walking on the surface of. i feel a bit as if i'm on the moon the moon on. i'm really getting to get there 1st one

after that some more 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. 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 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 their will make the rules of the u.s. of course wants to be 1st and stake its claim with china has taken them on so 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 is learning mandarin as well as russian he wants to cooperate with chinese astronauts and eventually fly to their planned space station. woman strong who are. both plus you can make beautiful things from plastic. there's this is one. of the chinese mentality.

going through your. hand door p.o. younger than she herself and 2 years ago model 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 in the 1st i thought it was you. know i kept saying i wanted to fly to the un on i thought i should have said you joe. 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. 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 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 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. well that's that's less money this is what you need very often when you're doing evie a training grant is important internal pressure is 0.4 barking 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. 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. on the. next stop is virtual new reality is practicing how to use the technology on the moon. go back and forth. here on the virtual noon over the sky's the limit. then pick that one up. and you see how strong i am i would throw it towards the earth. has got one. of the missing what i feel right get dangerous. to the left but not with so much training what is the biggest drawbacks of life as an

astronaut. drawbacks there aren't any it's kind of 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 look at them isn't that 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 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 a cell. as i'm on one stoop of macadamia police and one blueberry cream you know. so you know our 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't hurt. 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 of us out there 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 a 1000000000 planetarium to help convince politicians and business leaders to support the moon mission. and he might be there to be an astronaut. it's great that you're here welcome. please complete the 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. i 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 presumptuous to say that i have such and such percent chance. that it'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 that it's important fundamental to our national. 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 merril will continue to dream of being the next person to set foot on the moon.

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