Block 2, Week 2 of @esa.int #AstronautTraining! This was all about #microgravity, with @airzerog.bsky.social Video diary:

📡#Estrack is growing! Today we join you from Australia for the inauguration for the Agency's fourth deep space antenna.

We’re back at @esa.int's European Astronaut Centre in #Cologne – for two months of #AstronautTraining! 🧑‍🚀 👨‍🚀 This is “block 2” and there’s lots to cover… starting with #AerospaceEngineering 🚀 Video dairy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOYD...

The esa.int Astronaut Reserve corps joined in the 87th @airzerog.bsky.social parabolic fight campaign last week – participating in experiments, and ISS equipment familiarisation training in #ZeroG 🧑‍🚀 👩‍🚀 🧑‍🚀 👩‍🚀 🛫 🛬 🛫 🛬

We Are The Borg. Resistance is Futile! #StarTrekDay Today I’m testing “The influence of weightlessness on neuromuscular performance” on @airzerog.bsky.social for @esa.int , using @spoho.bsky.social’s “Space Bike”!

It’s time to go floating with @airzerog.bsky.social again! 🛫 🛬 🛫 🛬 🛫 🛬 🛫 🛬

You can never have too many hobbies, right? This weekend I had the chance to go #sailing, exploring the stunning #Basque coastline from #Bilbao on the beautiful 46ft “Lady Magellan”. ⛵️ I’m looking forward to learning the ropes, quite literally, some more soon!

We went #Scubadiving the wrecks and caverns of #Gozo 🇲🇹 this summer!

After the @cern.bsky.social #STELLAR festival yesterday, today I joined #ICRC2025 participants at #jungfraujoch “The top of Europe” and the amazing #SphinxObservatory! The atmospheric physics experiments took me back to my time obtaining corresponding measurements at #Concordia station, Antarctica

1 week, four cities… It started with wreck-diving in #Gozo 🇲🇹; then SpaceCon in #Manchester (and all 4 @esa.int 🇬🇧 astros together for the first time!); guest lecture at #Oxford Space Store’s summer course; then today at @cern.bsky.social’s STELLAR festival in #Geneva!

For the first time, all 👨‍🚀👩‍🚀👩‍🚀👨‍🚀 of the UK @esa.int astronauts interviewed together - This morning on BBC Breakfast! Catchup on iPlayer www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... (starting at 02:16:45)

Tune into @bbc5live.bsky.social right now to hear from 4 UK astronauts! 🧑‍🚀🧑‍🚀👩‍🚀👨‍🚀

The #ProjectHailMary movie trailer released this week. *amaze* 🤩 I'm definitely looking forward to seeing this, but, if you have not already read Andy Weir's book or listened to Ray Porter's narration... AVOID spoilers until then! 🤜🤛 I strongly encourage you to read/listen before you watch.

The UK National Space Operations Centre (NSpOC) has released the May 2025 report on the threats from space debris. 🌍 In May there were: ➡️ 64 re-entries of space objects ➡️ 1,546 in-space collision warnings ➡️ 198 more registered objects in orbit. Read more 👉 www.gov.uk/government/n...

First taste of microgravity for @astro-slawosz.bsky.social 🧑‍🚀✨ How do we know? Meet Joy — the baby swan flying with the #Ax4 crew 🦢 More than a zero-g indicator, Joy symbolises grace, unity and the shared spirit of exploration. When Joy floats, it means: welcome to microgravity 🚀 @esa.int

🚀 Tomorrow at 07:31 BST/08:31 CEST, ESA project astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski will travel to the International Space Station with the #Ax4 crew. ❓ What’s a project astronaut and what makes this mission special for @esa.int ? 🧑‍🚀✨ ⏯️ ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano explains it all 👇

Highlights from my dive trip to the Red Sea 🪸 🐠 🇪🇬 www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPmU...

If you enjoyed my #knitting 🧶 update from last week, I thought I might share this video I made during my Astronaut Reserve Training Block 1 with @esa.int: "How might being a knitter help in being an #astronaut? It's all about dexterity..."

Greetings from #LondonTechWeek today! I’ll be on a panel about “An Inter-Planetary Future: Commercial and Accessible Human Space Flight” at 15:30, if you’re also here: londontechweek.com/2025-agenda

Finally finished my very own Norwegian #PeaceSweater / #PeaceGenser jersey! 🇳🇴 🧶 Originally created by HouseOfYarn Norway (it is inspired by the #Torino2006 Winter Olympics and based on a heart-rose motif. I used baby merino wool on 2.5mm needles; it took about three months to complete. #knitting

It’s a space themed #MiniteCryptic today: Neil Armstrong's first to do moonwalk for space creature (5) www.minutecryptic.com

🚀 Calling all future astronauts, scientists, and engineers! Students aged 14–22 can explore the cosmos with NASA engineers, Oxford professors, and industry leaders. Join us at Oxford University for the Oxford Summer Space & AI Course from 7–18 July 2025 Apply 👉 www.spacestore.co/oxford-summe...

On holiday in #Cornwall last week I got the chance to dive at #Porthkerris:

Fascinating visit to @goonhilly.org Thanks for all the work you do to keep us in contact with our satellites, deep space missions, and each other. #Cornwall

Visiting the future launch facility 🚀 of the Cornish Space Agency 😉 – the @NationalTrust.org.uk Gribbin head daymarker, near Polkerris. But seriously, go learn about the #Cornwall Space Cluster www.cornwallspacecluster.co.uk

Zero-G testing campaign for the HIFIm exercise device complete!

What a busy week! Monday – cycling #TheRidgway & Village celebrations for #VEday Wednesday – #BuckinghamPalace Garden Party & Space Based Solar Power #SBSP event Thursday – Yuri’sNight London at the BIS (with @libbyjackson.com !) Saturday – SCUBA at #Vobster Next week, with @airzerog.bsky.social!

#VEday80 picnic in the village

I'll be in Bath this Wednesday evening with @bathastronomers.org.uk - Come and join us! bathastronomers.org.uk/2025/03/29/f...

#Astronaut Reserve Training with @esa.int - The final week of block 1, what's been happening since then, and looking forwards to block 2! 👩‍🚀

#Astronaut Reserve Training at @esa.int Block 1, Week 6 👩‍🚀 This week's all about spaceflight history. I especially enjoyed comparisons between space stations of the past and the upcoming gen. of commercial LEO destinations. Then we became certified guest divers at the Neutral Buoyancy Facility 🤿

The UK space sector saw a huge boost in funding from @esa.int programmes, with an additional £112 million in contracts secured between June 2022 and December 2024. 🛰️ The new figures were released on the opening day of Space-Comm Expo in London.

I’m at #SpaceCommExpo today and tomorrow - come and say hi 👋

A materials scientist 🔬, an aerospace engineer 🛰️ and a medical doctor 🩺 These remarkable women - @astromeganne.bsky.social, Anthea Comellini and Carmen Possnig- from @esa.int's Astronaut Reserve have completed their first training block at the European Astronaut Centre. 🔗 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

We're thrilled @libbyjackson.com is joining the museum as our new Head of Space. Libby is a human spaceflight expert who has worked for the ISS and @ukspaceagency.bsky.social. Libby will help develop activities for visitors and support our curators to acquire space technologies for the collection.

Block 1, Week 5 of #astronaut reserve training with @esa.int This week was all about #biology – #gravitational biology, #radiation biology, #astrobiology and more. A highlight was working with the mannequins flown on the #Artemis I mission around the Moon.

#MarsDay25 kicks off next week! 🔴 Check out the full programme of sessions planned for this year's journey to Mars, which includes speakers from the UK Space Agency and @esa.int, plus Tim Peake and @astromeganne.bsky.social. 👩‍🚀👨‍🚀 Register 👉 stem.org.uk/primary/enri...

Week 4 #astronaut reserve training with @esa.int! Attending the "tag-up" planning meetings at @dlr-spaceagency.bsky.social for the for increment 73 (including #Ax4) - learning about the payloads and experiments, safety, logistics, timings and all the contingencies. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyd_...

Columbus Control Centre (Col-CC) at @dlr-spaceagency.bsky.social campus in #Oberphaffenofen near Munich. The 👀, 👂 and ❤️ of @esa.int’s contribution to the #ISS partnership!

Today is the 10th Int'l Day of Women & Girls in Science #IDWGS. Here's a video we made recently at the @esa.int Astronaut Centre – highlighting our passion for #SpaceExploration and diverse scientific backgrounds: Carmen 🇦🇹 #Medicine, Anthea 🇮🇹 #AerospaceEngineering, & myself 🇬🇧 #MaterialsScience

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 👩🏾‍🔬👩🏻‍🔧👩🏼‍🚀 Member of the European Astronaut Reserve @astromeganne.bsky.social has begun training at ESA's European Astronaut Centre. 👩‍🚀 Check out Meganne's video diaries to learn more about her training 👉 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #IDWGS2025

#Astronaut Reserve Training: Block 1, Week 3 at the @esa.int Astronaut Centre‪‬! 👩‍🚀 This time including SCUBA certification dives, media training, space policy, and our very own flight suits!

#OTD 9 February 1995, Michael Foale became the first British-born astronaut to walk in space, and Bernard Harris became the first African-American to walk in space, during the Space Shuttle Discovery STS-63 mission (Pic: NASA) 🔗 flic.kr/p/D3hL45 @nasaspaceflight.com @ukspaceagency.bsky.social

Sneak peak... 👩‍🚀

📸🎂 The best view in the world turns 15 today: happy birthday Cupola! 🎉 🚀 #OTD in 2010, the European-built module was launched to the International Space Station on the Space Shuttle mission STS-130. 👨‍🚀 Video by @esa.int project astronaut Marcus Wandt. 🌍 Beautiful views of Earth, 24/7.

Big news! We’ve just launched some new accounts 🎉 Give them a follow: 🔭 @esascience.esa.int 🧑‍🚀 @esaexploration.esa.int 🚀 @esatransport.esa.int 🌍 @esaearth.esa.int 📡 @esaoperations.esa.int ⚙️ @esatechnology.esa.int 🛰️ @esaconnectivity.esa.int Stay tuned for exciting things ahead! 💙✨

The “Luna” analogue facility is to prepare for future human and robotic missions to the Moon 🌖 and has hundreds of tons of specially made *regolith simulant*! It’s on the @dlr-spaceagency.bsky.social Cologne campus, next to the @esa.int astronaut centre 🧑‍🚀 luna-analog-facility.de/en/for-users...

#Astronaut Reserve Training: Block 1, Week 2 at the @esa.int Astronaut Centre‪‬! 👩‍🚀 Together with my 🇦🇹, 🇮🇹, and 🇬🇧 colleagues, we continue the first block of training modules in 🇩🇪 – including the second half of HBP training, biology, fitness, SCUBA theory, and a visit to the "Luna" analog facility.

Outside the @esa.int astronaut centre is a row of trees – each planted before a new human spaceflight mission 👩‍🚀 Marcus’ 🇸🇪 is the most recent, and @astro-slawosz.bsky.social’s tree🇵🇱 will soon joint them!