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How does ESA recruit its astronauts?

should be noted that this class, which includes 17 people, is the fourth since the creation of the agency, after those of 1978, 1992 and 2009. The ESA recruits its astronauts at regular intervals, but spaced many years apart ... The last recruitment campaign dated from 2008-2009 and it is actuall ...

28
Nov
2022

Space City 2026: A program that puts stars in the eyes of the people of Toulouse.

keoff, moon landing, it's all there, including vibrations. A unique experience in Europe, conceived in the wake of Artemis 2. Fun fact: according to the ESA, barely 6% of candidates make it past the first phase of astronaut selection. After the simulator, it's easier to understand why! Mars, James W ...

06
Nov
2025

Thomas Pesquet's return: what is the earth sickness that astronauts suffer from?

A fitness program After passing the first medical examinations in Houston, Thomas Pesquet will fly to Cologne in Germany where the headquarters of ESA, the European Space Agency, is located. Indeed, even if he has returned to Earth, Thomas Pesquet's mission is not over. He will have to continu ...

09
Nov
2021

James Webb Telescope: 5 things to know about this space telescope

cause this new device represents a titanic challenge. The James Webb Space Telescope or JWST is a collaboration between the U.S. (NASA), European (ESA) and Canadian (CSA) space agencies. Not only did it require 40 million hours of work, a budget of 8.9 billion euros and the cooperation of 14 c ...

24
Dec
2021

Astronomy: the Gaia satellite revolutionizes our vision of the Milky Way

A 3D cartography of our galaxy Gaia is the name of the European satellite put into orbit in 2013 by the European Space Agency, or ESA, to map our galaxy in 3D and trace its 13-billion-year-old history. To do this, this satellite has positioned itself in the famous second Lagrange point L2, locat ...

30
June
2022

I Clean My Sea: a mobile application to track waste at sea

aged to use the app wherever you see floating trash. In fact, every detection made via this mobile app contributes to the European Space Agency's (ESA) creation of an algorithm for detecting floating trash from satellite images View this post on Instagram A post shared by I ...

23
Aug
2022