🎉 The icing on top 🍰😋 This week, we're over the moon celebrating our newest astronauts officially joining the European Space Agency astronaut corps 🎓

Cheers to completing one year of basic training! Here's to our astronauts and everyone supporting them on their journey to the stars 🌟

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We have our wings! On Monday, we graduated as Astronauts, after 13 months of basic training. The past year has been incredible - full of challenges, new friendships, and the start of a hugely exciting journey to space ✨

Thank you to everyone who has supported us getting here 🙏

Congratulations again 🤗 to my dear European Space Agency #Hoppers colleagues - now that you all got your wings you are ready to abandon gravity. ✈️🚀 Adenot Sophie Pablo Álvarez Rosemary Coogan Marco Sieber Raphaël Liégeois Katherine Bennell-Pegg John McFall DLR_de

How many astronaut (candidates) can you fit in one selfie ☺️?

Let’s go 0-g Air ZeroG ✈️ !

Human Spaceflight JAXA(Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)

When a crew of astronauts comes back to Earth, there’s always a chance they might not land where the ground teams are - having to wait many hours or even days before they can be reached.

We’ve been learning how to survive in freezing environments in case of such an event -…

Yesterday was a big day! Marcus Wandt and the Axiom-3 crew arrived to the International Space Station after launching late on Thursday evening. They will stay on board the Space Station for 14 days before returning to Earth in early February. Their stay will be filled with…

It’s just 45 minutes until Marcus Wandt and the #Ax3 crew are set to launch! The crew are already inside the Dragon, and the final preparations are being made 🚀

🚀🌟 Welcoming the new year with a cosmic twist! 🌌🎉

Here's to a stellar 365 days ahead, wishing you all a Happy New Year from European Space Agency's European Astronaut Centre 🌍✨

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Rosemary Coogan Pablo Álvarez Raphaël Liégeois John McFall Marco Sieber…

Another highlight of the visit to Houston - getting into NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory. We saw just how much time and effort is put in by the whole team for each simulation of a space walk, including preparing the EVA suit days and weeks in advance. We went for a dive around…

Last week at NASA's Johnson Space Center: visiting the Apollo moon rocks, trying robotics operations from the cupola, getting a tour of the ISS modules from Alexander Gerst and Luca Parmitano, and even spending the morning shadowing Mission Control Houston, following procedures on the ISS in real…

Here at NASA's Johnson Space Center with our Human Spaceflight basic astronaut training group for their first familiarization and training trip. Quiz: what is their very first class about? ;) #LivingTheDream Rosemary Coogan Marco Sieber John McFall Raphaël Liégeois Katherine Bennell-Pegg Adenot Sophie…

A team of students from University College Dublin has designed, built, tested, and will operate Ireland’s first satellite EIRSAT-1! It’s launching tomorrow, with a live feed👇🚀 All the best of luck for this mission!

Experiencing the centrifuge was definitely a highlight of basic training so far. Spinning in the centrifuge simulated the increased g-forces we’ll feel during spaceflight, following profiles for launch and re-entry 🚀 We reached 6 times the Earth’s gravity, and saw how much more…

Look at these incredible new Euclid images - from the ‘small’ scales of nebulae all the way to a cluster of galaxies, amazing 🌌 I can’t wait to see the science that’s just beginning 🔭 Congratulations ESA's Euclid mission team!

Would you like to run an experiment in space? 💫🛰

ESA Astronaut candidate Rosemary Coogan invites you to join the new #AstroPi Mission Space Lab, which challenges #students to calculate the speed of the International Space Station using live data from the Astro Pi computers…

Extravehicular activity and tools training! 🧑‍🚀 We completed our first “move dives” - moving around structures using only handrails and a limited range of motion, as would be imposed by an EVA suit. We were introduced to the equipment needed for EVAs, e.g. tethers, tools, and foot…

This was fantastic - not only to see the hardware, but to chat with the experts developing it. Many modifications are needed to make a camera that will function correctly in space - from being usable whilst wearing an EVA suit 🧑‍🚀, to not getting clogged up with Lunar dust!

Very exciting indeed! The first of this type of mission 👩‍🚀🚀 I’m really looking forward to seeing how this develops, and the UK-led science that could be carried out.

An incredible end to our astronomy training last week - under the stars and all through the cosmos in the planetarium Planetarium Bochum! 🪐

We could simulate the sky as seen from space - without the Earth’s atmosphere or light pollution, revealing so many hidden stars. We tried to…