RiesCraterMuseum the venue for the ESA astronaut training programm 2024

In mid-September 2024, the Ries and the RiesCraterMuseum were once again the venue for the European Space Agency’s “PANGAEA 2024” astronaut training program.

In addition to lectures and exercises, the program included several field excursions as well as visits to the museum and the drill core repository and isotope laboratory of the Center for Ries Crater and Impact Research “ZERIN”.

From left to right: Noroshige Kanai (JAXA, Japan), Museum Director Prof. Dr. S. Hölzl, Arnaud Prost (ESA FR) and Dr. Rosemary Coogan (ESA UK) in the current special exhibition “Micrometeorites” at the RKM (Photo: ESA)