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Fly me to the Moon

Loredana Bessone instructs astronauts on living in space, walking on the Moon’s surface and choosing rock samples for analysis.
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Project leader Loredana Bessone facilitates the collection of lessons learned from the execution of a geological traverse.

Loredana Bessone heads the analogue field-testing and exploration-training unit at the European Space Agency in Cologne, Germany. Credits: A. Romeo/ESA

I have been training astronauts at the European Space Agency (ESA) since 1992, when I was a computer engineer teaching them about information technology. I gradually took on more types of training, and have helped to design prospective human missions to Mars as well as missions to explore lunar caves.

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Nature 594, 294 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01519-5

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