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ESA Astronaut Class of 2022: Basic training:
April 2023 - Arrival at the European Astronaut Centre (EAC)
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- Title ESA Astronaut Class of 2022: Basic training - April 2023 - Arrival at the European Astronaut Centre (EAC)
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ESA's newly selected astronaut candidates of the class of 2022 arrived at the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne, Germany, on 3 April 2023 to begin their basic training.
The group of five candidates, Sophie Adenot, Pablo Álvarez Fernández, Rosemary Coogan, Raphaël Liégeois, and Marco Sieber, are part of the 17-member astronaut class of 2022, selected from 22 500 applicants from across ESA Member States in November 2022.
In addition, Australian Space Agency astronaut candidate Katherine Bennell-Pegg will be trained alongside ESA's astronaut candidates. Together they will receive basic training certification after successfully completing the approximately one-year instruction at EAC.
The astronaut candidates will be trained to the highest level of standards in preparation for future missions to the International Space Station and beyond. During basic training, this encompasses learning all about space programmes and exploration, technical and scientific disciplines, space systems and operations, as well as spacewalk and survival training.
On their first day at the European Astronaut Centre, the astronaut candidates were welcomed by ESA astronauts Alexander Gerst, Matthias Maurer and Thomas Pesquet, as well as ESA’s Head of the Space Training Team Ruediger Seine and ESA’s Head of Basic and Mission Training Unit Kris Capelle.
They received a tour of EAC’s facilities including the entrance hall, their offices, and EAC’s training hall, which is equipped with various full-scale mock-ups of European human-rated spacecraft (the Columbus laboratory and the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) module), simulators and classrooms equipped with stand-alone training models of Columbus’ scientific racks, and a model of the European Service Module, ESA’s contribution to NASA’s Orion spacecraft, that will send astronauts to the Moon and beyond.
They were also given a tour of EAC's fully equipped Cosmos gym, designed for astronaut training and rehabilitation, and the Neutral Buoyancy Facility, a 10 m deep pool used for initial spacewalk training at EAC, which was presented by ESA spacewalk instructor and Head of EVA Training at EAC Hervé Stevenin.