ESA has communicated the number of candidates who will enter the next selection phase: there are also 122 Italian men and 37 women. The response in the autumn
Matthias Maurer, a German ESA astronaut who was part of Elon Musk’s Space X mission last November, was officially the 600th human to travel to space. the most exclusive profession in the world (not counting the billionaires who pay staggering figures, about $ 250,000, to be taken to suborbital space, therefore less than 100 kilometers from the earth’s surface). Only two men can say that they have been in space and even on the top of Everest (one of the two the Italian Maurizio Cheli). And clearly even fewer are women. Of the 24 people who have been on the International Space Station for ESA, only two are astronauts: Samantha Cristoforetti and the French Claudie Haigner. These numbers would be enough to remind you how selective it is to apply to become a European astronaut, moreover in his only third selection since 1978. The most recent was that of 2009.
Here is explained the race of aspiring space travelers for the selection which opens in 2021 and which should lead to 4-6 new astronauts and astronauts in the next autumn: applications were 22,523 of which 17,126 from men and just under a quarter (5,397) from women. Samantha Cristoforetti spent a lot of time for the call to space and is preparing for a new mission. Now the game gets even tougher: 831 men and 530 women were invited to phase two, so as a percentage it was decided to favor the emergence of female candidates to rebalance the final result. 1,845 applications had arrived from Italy and 122 men and 37 women had access to the current phase. Clearly their name is not known for now. But we can do the same good luck to him.
February 15, 2022 (change February 15, 2022 | 19:41)
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