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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One Awesome Possibility for Students to Get an Astronaut Experience!

Written by Marko on June 12, 2008

Check out the press release of ESA (European Space Agency). They are looking for European students to join their new programme called “Fly Your Thesis! – An Astronaut Experience”. If you are a European student (like me), this is your change to experience a zero gravity flight. My old colleague from Ericsson was lucky and joined this kind of zero gravity flight some years ago. I saw his p...

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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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