SpaceMaster-Alumna selected as ESA-Astronaut
04/27/2024ESA just published the selected new generation of 6 future ESA-Astronauts with one SpaceMaster (the Master's program offered prior to Satellite Technology at the University of Würzburg).
Among them is also the Australian Katherine Bennell-Pegg, who was a SpaceMaster student in Würzburg 2008/2009. From initally 22.500 applications several tough training and selection rounds at ESA had to be passed, before she could now join ESA's astronaut team.
Links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO80EYxhCm8