Katherine Bennell-Pegg, Director of Space Technology at the Australian Space Agency. She will undertake basic astronaut training at ESA’s European Astronaut Centre (EAC) near Cologne, Germany, alongside ESA's newly selected career astronauts from April 2023.
This is the first time ESA is giving basic training to an astronaut candidate from an international partner, making EAC the third centre in the world to do so.