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A chance to name Europe's next astronaut mission

ESA's Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli will soon visit the International Space Station, and he needs your help to name his mission.
Paolo Nespoli is now in intensive training for his challenging 6-month mission that will start next November. He will be launched in a Soyuz TMA spacecraft from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 30 November with Dmitri Kondratyev and Catherine Coleman. After docking two days later, they will stay on the International Space Station (ISS) as members of Expeditions 26/27.
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These are the conditions of the ESA's competition to name Paolo Nespoli's mission to the International Space Station in 2010-2011.

* Proposals should be sent by email to ISSE3name@esa.int by 18:00 CEST (16:00 GMT) on 30 June 2010 with the subject line 'Paolo Nespoli Mission Name Competition'.
* The proposed name should be a word or a short combination of words. Do not use a personal name, unless it is a mythological name with a commonly known symbolic meaning.
* Include your real full name, age, home address and phone number in your email.

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