Industry committee  Here you see an EVA operation ongoing on the Russian segment. For the first time in seven or eight years, we had a new module coming, also on the Russian segment, so the Russian segment is now also going to get into full swing. We did a lot of EVAs as well from the shuttle, when

Industry committee  You open up the hatch and the people come back in. The space walk takes about six to seven hours, but in total it's about eight to nine hours that they are in the suits without being able to scratch their noses, for example. It's quite interesting when people come back into the h

Industry committee  Here we see the HTV vehicle. This is the Japanese cargo vehicle we talked about. Shortly you will see here on the right-hand bottom side the Canadarm being operated by Nicole, who is grabbing this vehicle in mid-space, quite a complex operation. Again, everything--all the control

Industry committee  First of all, thank you very much, also from my side, for inviting us here today. Of course one of the big things was that we upgraded the international space station from a three-person crew at the start of our mission to a six-person crew. The international space station is n