ESA astronauts Samantha Cristoforetti and Matthias Maurer joined 16 Chinese astronauts earlier this month for nine days of sea survival training off China’s coastal city of #Yantai. The ultimate goal is for ESA to establish long term cooperation with China and for an ESA astronaut to fly on China’s space station. http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_Spaceflight/Astronauts/ESA_and_Chinese_astronauts_train_together #Astronauts #ISS #UmbertoGuidoni #Raffaello #Destinylaboratory #multi-purposepressurisedlogisticsmodule #MPLM #ClaudieHaigneré #Andromedamission #HowdoIbecomeanastronaut #microgravity #zerogravity #health #vestibularysystem #SpaceAdaptationSyndrome #bones #psychology #exercise #lawsofmotion #cosmonauts #spacetoilets #Jean-FrancoisClervoy #FrankdeWinne #PedroDuque #LeopoldEyharts #ReinholdEwald #ChristerFuglesang #AndréKuipers #PaoloNespoli #ClaudeNicollier #ThomasReiter #HansSchlegel #GerhardThiele #MichelTognini #RobertoVittori #EuropeanAstronautCorp #EAC #EuropeanAstronautCentre #astronauttraining #candidateselection #astronautsupport #AstronautDivision #AstronautTrainingDivision #MedicalCrewSupportOffice #trainingfacilities