2023-05-03 18:45:13
In addition to his bachelor’s degree in aeronautical engineering from the University of León, he graduated with a master’s degree in aerospace engineering from the Warsaw University of Technology (Politechnika Warszawska) in 2011. Along with his mother tongue, Spanish, he is fluent in English, Polish and French. She has worked for Airbus and Safran in Spain, the UK and France. While serving as mechanical architect for the ExoMars rover at Airbus Defense and Space in the UK, his responsibilities included developing the integration procedure for the radioisotope heating unit in conjunction with the Russian Space Agency ROSCOSMOS and ESA.
He had also previously participated in the design, development and testing of the different bioseals of the ExoMars rover, to prevent biological contamination. He had ended up in the responsibilities of Project Manager for Airbus operations in Spain when he took the test and was selected along with his four colleagues among the 22,500 applicants to train as an astronaut.
“Coming from the industry, I think I fully understand the level of engineering excellence that all Europeans can achieve by working together,” he explained in his first public statements during the training, in which he also expressed some impatience, “I can’t wait to see any of us actually in a ship and heading for the European space module or heading for the Moon’.
Among the most likely missions for the two women and three men are flights to the ISS space station and the Artemis program, which aims to get people to the Moon again. This first month, the basic training of the future astronauts has consisted mainly of biology and physics classes, as well as sports training. “I am already looking forward to starting the practical lessons,” Belgian doctor Marco Sieber confessed during the presentation press conference. After the first training block, lasting a total of twelve months, they will be assigned to their missions and will begin specific training, which will be adapted to the respective tasks they must perform. And in the spring of 2024, they will receive their official ESA astronaut title.
The story of Pablo Álvarez Fernández (Spain), Rosemary Coogan (Northern Ireland), Sophie Adenot (France) Raphaël Liégeois (Belgium) and Marco Alain Sieber (Switzerland) becomes a benchmark for millions of young Europeans, or at least that’s how it is. ESA considers it. “For each one of us it can be very special,” acknowledged Álvarez, who recalls that as a child “what inspired me was seeing previous astronauts, as in the case of Pedro Duque in Spain.” “I am sure that each of us can see himself reflected in someone,” he replied about his references.
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Álvarez has confessed on several occasions that the most difficult thing so far was the secret that he had to keep about the selection process, even from his own family. His sister found out from the newspapers “and I had to apologize for that,” while he could only tell his parents that he had been selected the night before the trip on which he would be officially announced.
Their instructors now expect maximum dedication from them and they agree that expectations are being met “from the start”. “In these weeks we have grown as a team”, takes stock of the French Sophie Adenot, who highlights that each one of them brings specific experience in fields as diverse as astronomy, physics, neuroscience or medicine.
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