Over 300 Finns Applied to ESA’s Astronaut Training Program

Written by Marko on June 25, 2008

As we wrote in April, ESA is looking for new European candidates to their astronaut training program. ESA asked all member countries to send applications for the upcoming training program. From Finland they will receive over 300 applications. This is the first time Finns have a change to become an astronaut and fly to the space. ESA received 8.400 applications in total, and out of those tho...

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Returning Cosmonaut and Two Astronauts Almost Died During Landing

Written by Marko on April 24, 2008

It was a close call. The returning cosmonaut and two astronauts almost died during their landing because Sojuz capsule almost burned in the atmosphere. The crew was very lucky because the situation was actually very dangerous. The results could have been much worse. Last weekend the Sojuz capsule was bringing back cosmonauts Juri Malatshenko, American Peggy Whitson and South-Korean Yi So Yeon. ...

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ESA is Looking for New European Astronauts

Written by Marko on April 12, 2008

European Space Agency (ESA) is recruiting new astronauts. Anyone can leave an open application to ESA and therefore has a change to fly to space one day. Last time ESA recruited astronauts was in 1992. The overall selection process will start on Monday 19 May. The selected candidated will be trained in European Astronaut Centre (ESA-EAC) in Cologne, Germany. "We want to find high-calibre me...

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