Highlights of Basic Astronaut Training | European Space Agency

Highlights of Basic Astronaut Training | European Space Agency

The European Space Agency's newly graduated astronauts reach the end of one year of rigorous basic astronaut training. Watch the key moments during the journey of Sophie Adenot, Rosemary Coogan, Pablo Álvarez Fernández, Raphaël Liégeois, Marco Sieber, and Australian Space Agency astronaut candidate Katherine Bennell-Pegg. Selected in November 2022, the group began their training in April 2023.

Basic astronaut training provides the candidates with an overall familiarization and training in various areas, such as spacecraft systems, spacewalks, flight engineering, robotics and life support systems as well as survival and medical training. They received astronaut certification at European Space Agency's European Astronaut Centre on April 22, 2024.

Following certification, the new astronauts will move on to the next phases of pre-assignment and mission-specific training—paving the way for future missions to the International Space Station and beyond.

Video Credit: European Space Agency / NASA / Royal Netherlands Air Force

Duration: 3 minutes

Release Date: April 22, 2024

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