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João Lousada from Portugal joined the AMADEE-18 expedition in the Oman desert on the Arabian Peninsula as an analogue astronaut.
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Outer Space on Earth

Outer Space on Earth

João Lousada is a flight director at the International Space Station (ISS) and an analogue astronaut for the Austrian Space Forum, taking part in missions that simulate living conditions on the red planet. His dream of going to Mars led him to apply for ESA astronaut selection campaign.
17756 06.05.1978 Crewmen of the Soyuz-30 spacecraft, cosmonaut-researcher Miroslav Germashevsky (left), and crew commander Pyotr Klimuk, training in a space simulator. Alexander Mokletsov / Sputnik
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Space for Poles

Space for Poles

Mirosław Hermaszewski was the first and, so far, only Polish cosmonaut in space. On 26 June 1978, he was launched into space on the Soviet spaceship Soyuz 30 at an altitude of 363 km. Now 80, the Major is still considered a national hero in Poland.
Diana Trujillo with rover
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From Cali to Mars

From Cali to Mars

Born in Cali, Colombia, Diana Trujillo moved to the U.S.A. at seventeen with just 300 dollars in her pocket. Now, she is a successful aerospace engineer at NASA. She headed the team responsible for designing the robot arm of Perseverance rover.
Darwinism - Principle of Natural Selection of Living Organisms by Charles Darwin (English naturalist, 1809-1882): 1 - 4) in animals of the same breed and environment - Bumblebee (Bombus confusus); 5 - 7) Climatic transformations between southern and northern Europe - Small tortoiseshell (Aglais urticae); 8 - 9) Transformations between the seasons (seasonal dimorphism) - Map butterfly (Araschnia levana); 10 - 16) Gender-specific transformations (Sexual dimorphism) - Ancyluris inca (female 10, male 11), Scarab beetle (Phanaeus festivus, 12 male, 13-16 male); 17 - 19) Crossbreed between of two organisms of different breeds, varieties, species or genera through sexual reproduction (Bastardization) - Primula auricula (17) and Primula hirsuta (18) are the parents of Primula pubescens (19); 20 - 25) Adaptation to the aquatic life - Water chestnut (Trapa natans), plant (20) and nut (21), Water-crowfoot (Ranunculus aquatilis, 22), Mayfly (Ephemera vulgata, 23) and its gill larva (24), Backswimmer (Notonecta glauca, 25); 26 - 27) Adapting to the parasite life - Toothwort (Lathraea squamaria, 26), Dutchman's pipe (Monotropa Hypopithys, 27). Lithograph, published in 1897.
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Secrets, Beyond Evolution

Secrets, Beyond Evolution

When the first humans arose on Earth, viruses were already here. For a long time, they lived in a delicate balance but human disruption in ecological environments of wildlife unravelled it. Colombian physician and epidemiologist Manuel Tiberio Ayala decodes this intricate evolutionary game.
Milky way galaxy with Bright Stars and space dust
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A Journey of Wonder

A Journey of Wonder

The near future is packed with exciting life detection missions. By looking to the same organic molecules that make up life on Earth, scientists try to find signs of extraterrestrial life in the solar system. Portuguese astrobiologist Zita Martins discusses the challenges of these quests.
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Go Away

Go Away

António Araújo, expert in contemporary history, draws a connection between humankind and the Greenland shark, a 7-meter long predator capable of living for several hundred years, but incapable of stopping a parasite the size of a penny.