This week at @esa.int #Astronaut Reserve Training, we continued our deep dives into ISS systems, including Comms, Ops, Mission Control, Planning, Roles, and Operational Tools. Also, our SSDS qualification. ___ See all the weekly recap videos on the youtube playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

It's an honour to be selected as one of the 2026 #KarmanProject fellows. Looking forward to being part of this amazing community! #AdAstra www.karmanproject.org/news/106-spa...

So, that’s a thing now!

Rowing in #ZeroG! 🚣👩‍🚀 I recently joined the "HiFim" team aboard an AirZeroG parabolic flight campaign to test the exercise countermeasures potential of the device in rowing configuration. 🛫🛬🛫🛬🛫🛬🛫🛬🛫🛬

Sneak peek aboard today’s @airzerog.bsky.social parabolic flight, floating above the Bay of Biscay 🛫 🛬 🛫 🛬 🛫 🛬 🛫 🛬 🛫 🛬 I was part of the team with “HIFIm” device set up for testing rowing exercises in microgravity 🚣 🚣‍♀️ 🚣‍♂️

Today’s office - @airzerog.bsky.social in #Bordeaux testing the HIFIm for potential use aboard space stations for astronaut exercise countermeasures

Join me live in the studio all this evening on @news.sky.com as we countdown to the launch of #Artemis II news.sky.com/story/artemi...

What better way to spend #Christmas than #Husky sledding through the forests of Northern #Finland 🎄🇫🇮 The dogs were so excited to be out running and they loved the scritches and attention they got before and afterwards. Happy huskies, happy sledders! 🐕

The countdown begins 🚀 Set your reminders for the 2025 Christmas Lectures, supported by CGI: 28, 29 and 30 December at 7.00pm on BBC Four and iPlayer. Space scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock will take us on a whistle-stop tour of the Universe searching for evidence of extra-terrestrial life.

The #VideoDiary of #AstronautTraining at @esa.int continues… This week was “Basic Anatomy and #Physiology, Human Adaptation to Space”. 🫀🧠🫁 and “Concepts of Environmental Control and Life Support in Spaceflight” 👩‍🚀 youtube.com/shorts/LQpko...

#VideoDiary - Block 2, Week 6 of Astronaut Reserve Training at @esa.int ! This week’s all about #photography 📸 youtube.com/shorts/lnDue...

I love to have a #crochet project of an evening. This time I thought I’d make some keepsakes for my colleagues - personalised with flag and colours. 🧑‍🚀👩‍🚀😊 1.6mm hook, yarn odds and ends from my stash, and 2x3cm flags. Each took ~5hours. Pattern by natascha.zayceva linktr.ee/natascha.zay...

#VideoDiary of Block 2, Week 5 of #AstronautTraining at @esa.int ! This week, all about the nitty gritty of the onboard systems of the #ISS youtube.com/shorts/ATw_X...

#VideoDiary of Block 2, Week 4 of #AstronautTraining at @esa.int . This week, it's all about #OrbitalMechanics! www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2SH...

ICYMI: BBC #SkyAtNight episode "Brits in Space" 🚀🇬🇧 is now on BBC iPlayer bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... Featuring Helen Sharman 👩‍🚀 and interviews with Rosemary Coogan 👩‍🚀, John McFall 👨‍🚀, and myself 👩‍🚀 - discussing the training activities we're currently undertaking with @esa.int

#VideoDiary: Block 2, Week 3 of #Astronaut reserve training at @esa.int. Including a ceremony for our new training patch, more aerospace engineering subjects, then we travelled to North to Rostock for #SeaSurvival and #Firefighting training. : www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DKj...

👩‍🚀 Training in progress Our astronaut reserve members are back at @esa.int’s European Astronaut Centre for phase 2 — building on the training they kicked off earlier this year. ⏪ Rewind to @astromeganne.bsky.social's first impressions in this #ESAExplores episode 🎧 🔗 esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

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.