Interviews and footage of ESA’s new astronaut class now available

Date: Wed, Nov 23, 2022 GMT

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The European Space Agency has chosen 17 new astronaut candidates from more than 22 500 applicants from across its Member States. In this new 2022 class of ESA astronauts are 5 career astronauts, 11 members of an astronaut reserve and 1 astronaut with a disability for a feasibility project.

Interviews with each candidate in English and native languages, as well as GVs, are now available at https://www.esa.int/esatv/Videos/2022/11/ESA_Astronaut_Class_of_2022_Interviews 

Below is a list of available material:

Sophie Adenot (France) – career
English and French

Pablo Álvarez Fernández (Spain) – career 
English and Spanish

Meganne Christian (UK) – reserve
English

Anthea Comellini (Italy) – reserve
English and Italian

Rosemary Coogan (UK) – career
English

Sara García Alonso (Spain) – reserve
English and Spanish

Raphaël Liégeois (Belgium) – career
English and French

John McFall (UK) – astronaut with a disability for a feasibility project
English

Andrea Patassa (Italy) – reserve
English and Italian

Carmen Possnig (Austria) – reserve
English and German

Arnaud Prost (France) – reserve
English and French

Amelie Schoenenwald (Germany) – reserve
English and German

Marco Sieber (Switzerland) – career
English and Swiss German

Aleš Svoboda (Czech Republic) – reserve
English and Czech

Sławosz Uznański (Poland) – reserve
English and Polish

Marcus Wandt (Sweden) – reserve
English and Swedish

Nicola Winter (Germany) – reserve
English and German

A set of GVs with all astronauts is also available.