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ESA ASTRONAUT SELECTION 2021 Your way to space
CONTENTS
Your way to space 3 International Space Station 20
Who can apply? 4 Gateway 21
Requirements to apply 5 Orion European Service Module 22
Parastronaut project 6 Rockets 23
Selection process 7 ESA Member States 24
How to apply 8 Establishments and facilities 25
The European Space Agency: space for everyone 9
Benefits of spaceflight 10 Infographics 26
ESA astronauts 11 Images 27
Astronauts in space 12 Videos 28
Astronauts on Earth 13 Websites 29
Support team 14 Contact 30
Phases of training 15
Training locations 16 This document contains videos and links to web pages for
CAVES 17 more information. Click on the and icons to discover
more information. Links to recommended images, videos and
Pangaea 18
animations are provided towards the end of this information kit.
ESA’s human and robotic exploration destinations 19 An internet connection is required to access the webpages.
February 2021For the first time since 2008, ESA is seeking new astronauts to join a journey of discovery for the benefit of Earth. This collection of infographics gives a small insight into the role of an ESA astronaut, selection requirements, astronaut training, what ESA does and – most importantly – how you can apply! Are you ready? Read on for your way to space.
WHO CAN APPLY?
There are many paths to becoming an astronaut…
ESA is seeking candidates with a Master’s degree
(or higher) and a minimum of three years’
experience in:
Natural Sciences Medicine Engineering Mathematics Computer Sciences
Applications from all qualified candidates, ESA is also issuing a special call for candidates
irrespective of gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, with physical disabilities to apply to its astronaut
beliefs, age, or other characteristics, are welcome. reserve. Discover this new opportunity on the
ESA astronaut selection website.REQUIREMENTS TO APPLY
All aspiring astronauts must fulfil requirements described in the vacancy notice.
These include, but are not limited to:
Strong motivation and ability to cope
Citizen of an ESA Member with irregular working hours, frequent
or Associate Member State. travel, and long absences from home,
family and regular social life.
Master’s degree (or higher) in: natural sciences
(including physical sciences, Earth, atmosphere Flexible with regards to place of work
or ocean sciences, biological sciences, medicine), (inside or outside Europe).
engineering, mathematics, computer sciences;
or an experimental test pilot degree. Calm under pressure.
Three years’ relevant professional Willing to participate
post-graduate experience, showing in life science experiments.
progressive increase in responsibilities.
Fluent in English (minimum CEFR C1).
Knowledge of additional languages
(minimum CEFR B1-B2) is an asset.170
PARASTRONAUT PROJECT
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As part of ESA’s commitment to enhance The selected candidate(s) will work with
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inclusiveness and fair representation, ESA to assess and optimise the conditions
the Agency is launching the parastronaut 130 allowing people with physical disabilities
to work and live in space.
A. STRONAUT
feasibility project to assess the
conditions for including astronauts 120
with disabilities to work in space. A. STRONAUT
This project is a new endeavour for 110
Europe and a global first.
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90 The educational and psychological
requirements for these candidates are the
80 same as for the ESA astronaut selection.
However, with respect to physical
A. STRONAUT
70 requirements, this feasibility project
will allow the inclusion of candidates with
60
The feasibility project aims at offering the following disabilities:
professional spaceflight 50
opportunities to a wider pool of • a lower limb deficiency, as follows:
talents. Starting with selected disabilities 40 - Single or double foot deficiency
to have a thorough understanding of the through ankle
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potential challenges in terms of safety - Single or double leg deficiency
and operations in space, the scope of 20 below the knee
disabilities may then be extended aiming • a pronounced leg length difference
at broader inclusion. 10 • a short stature (SELECTION PROCESS
RECEIVING 31 March to PSYCHOLOGICAL July to November MEDICAL May to July INTERVIEW September 2022
APPLICATIONS 28 May 2021 TEST SERIES 2021 SELECTION 2022 ROUND 2
APPOINTMENT
May to June PRACTICAL AND January to April INTERVIEW July to September AND
SCREENING
2021 PSYCHOMETRIC 2022 ROUND 1 2022 ANNOUNCEMENT
TESTING
October 2022
The situation regarding COVID-19 may change this schedule.HOW TO APPLY
1 Applications
31 March 2021
open 2 Submit a complete
application online through
3 Create an account
and answer an online
4 Upload all documents specified in the vacancy notice:
a Europass CV (in English)
and close 28 May 2021 the ESA careers website questionnaire a motivation letter (in English)
before the vacancy closes a copy of your passport
a medical certificate issued by an aviation medical
examiner showing you are medically certified for a
Private Pilot Licence or higher. You do not need to
actually hold a pilot licence.
Please take care when applying. All incomplete,
late, or incorrectly submitted applications will be
disregarded without exception.THE EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY: SPACE FOR EVERYONE Established in 1975, ESA now has 22 Member States and cooperates with many others. These countries are home to more than 500 million European citizens. If you’re one of them, then we’re working for you. Our mission is the peaceful exploration and use of space for the benefit of everyone. We watch over Earth, develop and launch inspiring and unique space projects, fly astronauts and push the boundaries of science and technology, seeking answers to the big questions about the Universe. We are a family of scientists, engineers and business professionals from all over Europe, working together in a diverse and multinational environment.
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European astronauts
on the International
Space Station STS-100 Andromède Marco Polo STS-111 Odissea
April — May 2001 October 2001 April — May 2002 June 2002 October — November 2002
Frank De Winne Léopold Eyharts Hans Schlegel Paolo Nespoli Christer Fuglesang Thomas Reiter Roberto Vittori André Kuipers Pedro Duque
OasISS STS-122 STS-122 Esperia Celsius Astrolab Eneide DELTA Cervantes
May — December 2009 February — March 2008 February 2008 October — November 2007 December 2006 July — December 2006 April 2005 April 2004 October 2003
Christer Fuglesang Paolo Nespoli Roberto Vittori André Kuipers Luca Parmitano Alexander Gerst Samantha Cristoforetti Andreas Mogensen Tim Peake
Alissé MagISStra DAMA PromISSe Volare Blue Dot Futura Iriss Principia
August — September 2009 December 2010 — May 2011 May 2011 December 2011 — July 2012 May — November 2013 May — November 2014 November 2014 — June 2015 September — October 2015 December 2015 — June 2016
You? Matthias Maurer Thomas Pesquet Luca Parmitano Alexander Gerst Paolo Nespoli Thomas Pesquet
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Cosmic Kiss Alpha Beyond Horizons Vita Proxima
Autumn 2021 April 2021 July 2019 — February 2020 June — December 2018 July — December 2017 November 2016 — May 2017ASTRONAUTS IN SPACE
Social
Experiments Phone calls with
Perform experiments autonomously family and friends.
or in contact with
mission control.
Spacewalk
Lunch Exit the Space Station to
install new experiments
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13 Usually an all-day event.
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Fitness 9 21 15 3 Maintenance
Exercise for two hours Make sure all equipment
per day, seven days a 8
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week. 19 17
is in tip-top shape.
Breakfast 7 18
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Health check
Participate in weekly Weekends
conferences with doctors. Dinner Carry out housekeeping,
public relations and voluntary tasks,
Sleep plus spare time.
Daily meeting Eight hours
20-minute meeting about the day’s planned per day.
activities and any changes to the schedule
from mission control.ASTRONAUTS ON EARTH
Tasks ESA astronauts perform Education and outreach
when they are not in space. Training Attend special events, speak
Refresher sessions, language with young people about ESA
classes, medical training, and space topics.
mission-specific training.
Office work
Attend meetings and briefings,
serve on boards, advise on
procedures and protocols. Mission support
Public relations and media Lead team in charge of
Give interviews, host visits, ESA astronaut operations
record special messages, and crew support.
social media. Exercise
Maintain an adequate
level of fitness through
sport and exercise.
CAPCOM
Mission control Travel
Guide astronauts through Travel for events,
spacewalks and spacecraft conferences, training Special assignments
operations by radio from and longer-term postings Participate in analogue missions such
mission control. with partner agencies. as NASA’s NEEMO and ESA’s CAVES
and Pangaea training.SUPPORT TEAM
Space exploration is a team effort, requiring
many functions. Here are a few other roles
that help ensure mission success.
Eurocoms Trainers
Europe’s specialist communicators Astronaut trainers prepare crew members
and biomedical engineers are the voice link to carry out tasks and experiments in space.
between astronauts in space and ground
control teams on Earth. Planners
An astronaut’s time is a precious resource,
Crew support planners make sure this is scheduled for use
The wellbeing of astronauts and their in the most efficient way.
families is supported by a dedicated crew
operations team. Flight directors
The team at ESA’s Columbus Control Centre
Medical experts make sure astronauts work safely in Europe’s
Flight surgeons, exercise specialists, space laboratory, and command and control
administrators and other experts take care systems from the ground.
of an astronaut’s health.
Public relations, media
Scientists and researchers and communications
Principal investigators and their teams This team brings the fascinating science
develop and support the experiments and operations of astronaut missions to
astronauts perform in orbit. the attention of the public.
Find out more about ESA careers.PHASES OF TRAINING
Astronaut training is constantly evolving. However, there
are three key phases for European astronauts.
BASIC Introduction to:
• ESA • Basic astronaut skills
TRAINING
A. STRONAUT
• International space programmes • Russian language
One year, at European
• Engineering and science fundamentals • Survival skills
Astronaut Centre
• Space systems and vehicles
Gain in-depth knowledge:
PRE-ASSIGNMENT • Resource and data operations, robotics • Medical practices and payloads
TRAINING • Navigation • At this stage astronauts also
Length varies, at • Maintenance support operations for ongoing
all partner sites • Spacewalks missions
INCREMENT Once assigned a spaceflight:
TRAINING • Prepare for assigned mission
Around two years, • Focus on specific tasks and
at multiple locations experiments to be performed in spaceTRAINING LOCATIONS
Canadian Space Agency ESA European Astronaut Centre
Robotics Training Centre European Astronaut Centre Home to ESA’s astronaut corps, it trains
Montreal, Canada Cologne, Germany Europeans to fly to the International Space
Station, while preparing for an exciting future
Roscosmos of space exploration beyond low Earth orbit.
NASA Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre
Johnson Space Center Star City, Russia
200+
Houston, United States
People involved in astronaut
training across the globe.
A. STRONAUT
JAXA
SpaceX Tsukuba Space Center
Dragon training Tsukuba Science City, Japan
Hawthorne,
United States
30+
NASA Roscosmos Astronauts from all
Kennedy Space Center Baikonur Cosmodrome over the world train
Florida, United States Baikonur, Kazakhstan each year at ESA’s
astronaut centre.CAVES
CAVES stands for Cooperative The cave environment provides many
Adventure for Valuing and Exercising space-relevant conditions, including
human behaviour and performance isolation from the outside world,
Skills. The three-week course confinement, minimal privacy,
prepares astronauts to work safely technical challenges, as well as limited
and effectively in multicultural equipment and supplies for hygiene
teams in an environment where and comfort. Participants must adapt to
safety is critical – in caves. living and working together in a unique
environment to meet scientific and
exploration objectives.
Constant attention to
safety rules, procedures
and equipment is critical to
the successful completion
of the mission.PANGAEA
The Pangaea course provides European astronauts
practical knowledge of geology of Earth,
Moon and Mars to prepare them
to work with planetary scientists and
engineers in the next exploration missions.
The course is split into several parts over a year, in these locations:
Astronauts train to work together with
robots, scientists and engineers on Earth, Earth and lunar geology Moon highland terrain
using the best field geology and planetary Nördlinger Ries crater, Lofoten, Norway
observation techniques. Germany
Martian sedimentary
Geological field training geology and surface
and astrobiology processes
Lanzarote, Spain Bletterbach canyon, ItalyESA’S HUMAN AND ROBOTIC EXPLORATION DESTINATIONS
ESA’s Human and Robotic Exploration programme will see astronauts
and robots explore low Earth orbit on the International Space Station,
the Moon and Mars to bring back knowledge and benefits on Earth.
European Large
Logistic Lander
Earth
International Return
Space Station Orion Orbiter
European
Service Sample
Module Fetch
Rover
Gateway
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I-Hab Container
Cislunar Transfer Vehicle Esprit
Trace Gas ExoMars
Orbiter Rover
400 km 385 000 km 55 — 400 million kmINTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
The International Space Station is an example
of broad cooperation, uniting Europe,
USA, Russia, Japan and Canada in one
of the largest partnerships
in the history of science.
The Station is one of the
greatest engineering works
The endeavour has brought achieved by humankind, and proof that it is
humankind together to live possible to sustain life away from Earth. Results
and work in space uninterrupted for relating to the effects of long stays in orbit teach
over two decades. us how to manage the risks of future human
missions farther out in space.GATEWAY
The lunar Gateway will be assembled
and operated in a highly elliptical The space station will
orbit around the Moon. also offer a place to relay
communications
and is a base for
scientific research.
Astronauts will use the
Orion spacecraft
to travel to the Gateway.
It will be a staging post for missions
to the Moon and Mars. It will provide
shelter and a place to stock up on
supplies for astronauts en route to
more distant destinations.
The Gateway has a mass of around 40 tonnes and will consist of a
service module, a communications module, a connecting module, an airlock
for spacewalks, a place for the astronauts to live and an operations station
Astronauts will be able to occupy the to command the Gateway’s robotic arm or rovers on the Moon.
Gateway for up to 90 days at a time.ORION EUROPEAN SERVICE MODULE
Orion is a NASA spacecraft set for missions
to the Moon, Mars and beyond.
ESA has designed Orion’s European This is the first collaboration
Service Module – the powerhouse between ESA and NASA on
that will supply the spacecraft with a transportation vehicle that will carry
electricity, propulsion, thermal control, astronauts farther into space
air and water. than ever before.ROCKETS
Going to space
Getting to space requires a rocket
launch. These are the rockets that
ESA astronauts could be launched on.
The Russian Soyuz, commercial SpaceX Crew Dragon
and Boeing Starliner fly to the International
Space Station.
The Space Launch System
rocket will launch the
ROSCOSMOS
Orion spacecraft on
Artemis missions to the
Gateway and the Moon.
110 m
50 m
70 m
52 m
Roscosmos SpaceX Boeing NASA Organisation
Soyuz FG Falcon 9 Atlas V Space Launch System Rocket
Soyuz MS spaceraft Crew Dragon Starliner Orion SpacecraftESA MEMBER STATES
ESA is an international organisation
with 22 Member States. By coordinating the financial
and intellectual resources of its members, it can
undertake programmes and activities far beyond
the scope of any single European country.
Member States Associate Members
Austria Italy Latvia
Belgium Luxembourg Slovenia
Czech Republic The Netherlands
Denmark Norway Long-standing Cooperating State
Estonia Poland Canada
Finland Portugal
France Romania Cooperating States in Europe
Germany Spain Bulgaria
Greece Sweden Croatia
Hungary Switzerland Cyprus
Ireland United Kingdom Lithuania
Malta
SlovakiaESA ESTEC
ESA ESEC
ESTABLISHMENTS AND FACILITIES Innovating in
ESA’s technical and
research heart.
space security
and education.
ESA HQ
Guiding Europe’s
activities in space.
ESA EAC
Europe’s hub of
astronaut activity.
ESA ECSAT
Applying space
ESA ESOC
Where space
to daily life.
missions come alive.
EUROPE’S
SPACEPORT
Guaranteeing European
access to space. ESA ESAC
ESA’s window
on the Universe. ESA ESRIN
Keeping watch over
our planet.INFOGRAPHICS
Your way to space Who can apply? Requirements to Parastronaut project Selection process How to apply The European Space Benefits of
apply Agency: space for spaceflight
everyone
ESA astronauts Astronauts in space Astronauts on Earth Support team Phases of training Training locations CAVES Pangaea
ESA’s human and International Space Gateway Orion European Rockets ESA Member States Establishments
robotic exploration Station Service Module and facilities
destinationsIMAGES Ten years of ESA’s Running Spacewalk Orion Gateway Spacewalk training CAVES course Pangaea course 2009 class of experiments astronauts ESA astronauts, Science Spacewalk Orion Gateway Training CAVES course Pangaea course class of 2009 ESA astronauts, Science Spacewalk Orion European Gateway concept Training CAVES course Pangaea course class of 2009 Service Module
VIDEOS
International Space A decade of Human spaceflight Visions of human Alpha mission Blue Dot mission Tour of the Destination: low
Station: 20 years in European space and robotic spaceflight and training — Thomas summary — Columbus laboratory Earth orbit
60 seconds science on exploration future robotic exploration Pesquet Alexander Gerst with Tim Peake
Columbus
New eyes — Wall of the world — Space medicine: Space medicine: Science: Foams Science: fluid Science: growing Science: boiling
Thomas Pesquet Alexander Gerst staying fit in space staying healthy in mixtures blood vessels
space
Space Station Three months of Dizziness Sloshing liquids Gyroscopes in space Training for a CAVES 2019 Pangaea-X
science with science in space experiment with with Thomas with Tim Peake spacewalk with
Samantha with Alexander Tim Peake Pesquet Matthias Maurer
Cristoforetti GerstWEBSITES
ESA ESA astronaut Careers at ESA ESA astronauts The European European Astronaut International Space Orion
selection astronaut corps Centre Station
Gateway Human and robotic Luca Parmitano Alexander Gerst Samantha Andreas Mogensen Tim Peake Thomas Pesquet
exploration Cristoforetti
Matthias Maurer ESA exploration CAVES and Pangaea Lunar web Human and Robotic CAVES videos ESA videos for ESA Explores
blog blog documentary Exploration on professionals: Fit for podcast
YouTube space
ESA Brand Centre —
ESA PatchCONTACT
Ninja Menning www.esa.int/YourWayToSpace
Head of Newsroom and Media Relations
media@esa.int
ESA ESTEC, Netherlands facebook.com/EuropeanSpaceAgency
Jules Grandsire
Corporate Communication Manager instagram.com/EuropeanSpaceAgency
Jules.Grandsire@esa.int
ESA Headquarters, Paris, France
youtube.com/EuropeanSpaceAgency
Marco Trovatello
Communication Programme Officer
Marco.Trovatello@esa.int flickr.com/EuropeanSpaceAgency
ESA EAC, Cologne, Germany
Rosita Suenson linkedin.com/company/european-space-agency/
Communication Programme Officer
Rosita.Suenson@esa.int
ESA ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands twitter.com/esa
twitter.com/esaspaceflight
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