At the European Space Agency

Took a brief trip to the Netherlands to attend the open day event at ESTEC, one of the most important centres of the European Space Agency. ESTEC had tons of cool space stuff on display: presentations and models of ESA’s most important missions (including the world famous Rosetta mission that landed on a comet, the star of 2015); a view of actual ESTEC operations including a centrifuge experiment and the assembly of the actual BepiColombo mission that will launch to Mercury in 2017, a model of the IXV space plane and a cool experiment that showed cosmic rays in action. I also spent some time re-visiting Amsterdam and its attractions. Check out some new pictures in my updated Netherlands album: