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RE: Meeting European Astronaut Paolo Nespoli at the ESA Headquarters today
Since you are working at ESA @Fredrikaa, do you know if it is possible for us mortals to come and visit and get a tour there? Or is the security high and visitors not allowed?
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ESA Headquarters is not very interesting to be honest. Unless there is a cool presentation like this one then the room used in the picture above sets the tone right since it's the one used for most "big" meetings.
If you want to see coll stuff you'll have to go to ESTEC, which is the European Research and Technology Centre. I think they have an open day about once a year for the public coming from anywhere to visit. So that would be your best bet :)
That's pretty interesting. I hope to see a couple of rocket launches in my life. I guess US would be a good bet for that eh?
Thanks! Well, for as long as SpaceX is rocking the show with their spectacular landings, the US is certainly the place to be at the moment (Kennedy Space Centre in Florida to be specific). That's also where I saw two launches myself back in 2012 which I shared here.
However, there are many countries that do launches. I would say India is a pretty exciting country as well with the impressive number of satellites they manage to deploy with the PSLV launcher. Based on their current scheduling, their next launch should be in late March from Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota. So maybe that would be an opportunity to see one at home turf? :)
Having just looked it up, I can see they will use a PSLV XL configuration of the rocket with enlarged solid rocket boosters due to the size and high orbit of the navigation satellite they are launching. So it will be a big one too ^^