In 2022, ESA selected 17 individuals to form a new class of astronauts. Among them, five astronaut candidates are currently undergoing basic training at the European Astronaut Centre in preparation for future space missions. Follow their journey as they train to become the next generation of space explorers.
Posted on Thursday, der 7. March 2024 by Laura
(English) In the Episode 5 of the ESA Explores podcast series, highlighting our 2022 astronaut class, ESA astronaut candidate Pablo Álvarez Fernández shares his insights into basic astronaut training at the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne.
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Posted on Thursday, der 22. February 2024 by Laura
(English) In the Episode 4 of the ESA Explores podcast series, highlighting our 2022 astronaut class, ESA astronaut candidate Rosemary Coogan shares her insights into basic astronaut training at the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne.
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Posted on Friday, der 9. February 2024 by Laura
(English) In the third episode of the ESA Explores podcast series, highlighting our 2022 astronaut class, ESA astronaut candidate Marco Sieber from Switzerland shares his insights into basic astronaut training at the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne.
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Posted on Friday, der 26. January 2024 by Laura
(English) In the second episode of the ESA Explores podcast series, highlighting our 2022 astronaut class, ESA astronaut candidate Raphaël Liégeois shares his insights into basic astronaut training at the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne.
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Posted on Friday, der 22. December 2023 by Laura
(English) ESA astronaut candidates Sophie Adenot, Rosemary Coogan, Pablo Álvarez Fernández, Raphaël Liégeois, and Marco Sieber, alongside Katherine Bennell-Pegg from the Australian Space Agency suited up in scuba gear, plunging into NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) for spacewalk training familiarisation.
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Posted on Wednesday, der 20. December 2023 by Laura
(English) Last week, members of ESA’s astronaut class of 2022 embarked on their first overseas field trip. They visited NASA’s facilities at the Johnson Space Centre (JSC) in Houston, Texas, USA, to get familiar with the environment where they will spend a significant part of their training once assigned to a mission.
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Posted on Thursday, der 23. November 2023 by Laura
(English) The ESA astronaut class of 2022 was selected exactly a year ago. Most members of the astronaut reserve made their first visit as a group to the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne, Germany this week.
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Posted on Tuesday, der 10. October 2023 by Nadjejda
(English) Patches are an integral part of every astronaut mission. Space agencies print out a cloth reproduction that astronauts wear during their flight, a tradition that started sixty years ago.
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