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[ November 12, 2018   //   ]

Volga-Dnepr Airlines and Bolloré Logisticshave delivered the first European Space Module (ESM) for the program which, in 2022, will take astronauts 64,000km beyond the Moon. The 14-ton module, transported in a special container to maintain precise temperature and pressure conditions, as well as 10 tons of supporting equipment, were delivered onboard one of Volga-Dnepr’s Antonov 124-100 freighters from Bremen in Germany to Titusville, US, in preparation for its installation on the next-generation Orion spacecraft and testing at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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