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Cavenauts bring back new life

It is not every day that astronauts can claim to return to Earth with a new species of life. But when the astronauts on ESA's CAVES underground training course returned to the surface they were carrying a special type of woodlouse.
CAVES training sends astronauts from all the International Space Station partner nations underground for a week to learn about working in multi-cultural teams under extreme conditions.
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Cavenauts return to Earth

The international team of astronauts taking part in ESA's caving adventure have returned to Earth after spending six days underground. The voyage to the surface of our planet took them five hours from basecamp.
CAVES gives astronauts a taste of working as a safe and effective team during long spaceflights. In particular, they can hone their leadership and group skills while working in a typical multicultural team found on the International Space Station.
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CAVES 2012 debriefing

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Exploring new worlds

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Underground day 4. In a room with a beautiful pond the astronauts enjoy a meal before descending even deeper into Earth. An international crew of six astronauts are training for a caving adventure designed to prepare them for spaceflight. There are many similarities to spaceflight such as a lack of day--night cycle, sensory deprivation, minimal hygiene and the necessity to work as a team and solve problems together. After a week of training they entered the caves to spend six days living and working underground.



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Exploration

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Underground day 1. The cavenauts head out for their first day of real exploration and get wet in the process. They make use of the water they find to replenish their supplies. An international crew of six astronauts are training for a caving adventure designed to prepare them for spaceflight. Training started a week before they entered the caves on Friday 7 September to spend six days underground.



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Going underground

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The cavenauts prepare for the six nights they will spend exploring the caves of Sa Grutta in Sardinia, Italy. After a week of training, the moment has arrived for them to say goodbye to the Sun and set up camp underground.



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Welcome cavenauts

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The CAVES 2012 astronaut crew arrive at their base for the next six days. Andreas Mogensen, European Space Agency, David Saint-Jacques, Canadian Space Agency, Soichi Noguchi, Japanese Space Agency, Michael Fincke, NASA, Andrew J. Feustel, NASA and Nikolai V. Tikhonov, Roscosmos collect their gear, try their new clothes and... practise ninja moves! On 7 September they will enter the 'Sa Grutta' caves in Sardinia and spend six days exploring and solving problems as a multicultural team while following space procedures. Credits: ESA--V. Crobu and S. Sechi



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Astronauts dream of finding new life and for a select crew that dream might be within reach this week - albeit deep underground instead of in outer space.
An international crew of six astronauts will start training for a caving adventure designed to prepare them for spaceflight.
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CAVES 2011 compilation


In 2011 five astronauts went underground for ESA's CAVES training adventure. ESA's Tim Peake and Thomas Pesquet were joined by Randolph Bresnik from NASA, Norishige Kanai from Japan and Sergey Ryzhikov from Russia.
CAVES, an abbreviation of Cooperative Adventure for Valuing and Exercising human behaviour and performance Skills, prepares astronauts to work safely and effectively and solve problems as a multicultural team while exploring uncharted areas following space procedures.



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