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This handout image obtained from The European Space Agency (ESA) on February 7, 2018 shows ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti working on the Triplelux experiment during her 2015 Futura mission to the International Space Station. The European Space Laboratory Columbus, docked for ten years at the International Space Station, will soon have a kind of little brother at its side: a commercial platform called Bartolomeo that will host in 2019 the experiences of users around the world. The European Space Agency (ESA) and Airbus Defense and Space on February 7, 2018 signed a public-private partnership agreement in Noorwijk (Netherlands) on this new platform, which should be installed in mid-2019 at the front of the Columbus module. / AFP PHOTO / ESA/NASA / HO / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / European Space Agency/NASA" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS