Posted on Thursday February 22nd, 2024 by Laura
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 January 26th, 2024 by Laura
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 January 12th, 2024 by Laura
In the first episode of the ESA Explores podcast series on our 2022 astronaut class, ESA project astronaut Marcus Wandt provides a glimpse into his spaceflight training ahead of his upcoming Muninn mission.
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Posted on Friday December 22nd, 2023 by Laura
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 December 20th, 2023 by Laura
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 Friday December 8th, 2023 by Laura
This special bonus episode of our Time and Space series on the ESA Explores podcast marks a special occasion—the 40th anniversary of Spacelab's first flight, the first European-built space laboratory, and ESA’s first human spaceflight mission.
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Posted on Tuesday October 10th, 2023 by Nadjejda
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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Posted on Thursday June 29th, 2023 by Nadjejda
Marcus Wandt is the first in the new generation of European astronauts to jump on a commercial spaceflight with Axiom Space. This article is part of a series about the journey behind his first mission to space, Muninn.
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