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A year in training: ESA's new astronauts graduate
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ESA's newly graduated astronauts reach the end of one year of rigorous basic astronaut training. Discover 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 familiarisation 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 ESA’s European Astronaut Centre on 22 April 2024.
Following certification,
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Chinese astronauts return to Earth after 6 months on space station
NASA does Dragon shuffle prepping for Starliner launch
Parking is at a premium at the International Space Station, but NASA and SpaceX cleared out one spot as a cargo Dragon spacecraft completed its trip home with a splashdown off the Florida coast.
NASA still needs to shift the remaining Dragon spacecraft from its spot to clear the path for next week's launch of Boeing's CST-100 Starliner.
The cargo Dragon from the CRS-30 resupply mission that arrived in March was attached to the ISS for more than 36 days. It returned for a 1:38 a.m. splashdown off Tampa, carrying more than 4,100 pounds of science experiments and other supplies back to Earth.
It departed the ISS Harmony module, which has two docking ports, on Sunday.
But now NASA wants the four members of Crew-8 to perform valet duties. They will climb aboard the Crew Dragon Endeavour that remains docked at Harmony's forward port, and fly it around and redock to the open port, called the zenith port.
NASA's Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps along with Roscosmos' Alexander Grebenkin will take the short road trip at 7:45 a.m.
