Sunday 8 October is when ESA opened the doors of its largest establishment this year, letting visitors meet astronauts and space experts, talk to the teams behind Europe’s space missions and inspect a unique concentration of space simulation and test facilities.
This is the centre’s seventh annual Open Day, set to be the biggest yet, with the theme of Bringing Space To Earth. A record eight astronauts will be speaking and signing autographs: Jean-Jacques Favier and ClAudie Haigneré of France, Michael Foale of the UK, Dirk Frimout of Belgium, Ulf Merbold and Ernst Messerschmid of Germany, Dumitru-Dorin Prunariu of Romania, and André Kuipers of the Netherlands. See more http://www.esa.int/About_Us/ESTEC/Open_day_2017/Countdown_to_Sunday_s_Netherlands_Open_Day
See many more photos at:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/europeanspaceagency/albums/72157687659619644/with/37593092461/
and
https://www.flickr.com/photos/esa_events/albums/72157687107695850
