ESA’s new astronaut
Thursday, February 2, 2017 12:58
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Matthias Maurer, an engineer from Germany, has started training as the latest member of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) astronaut corps. Maurer was selected Thursday (Feb. 2) to be the seventh member of ESA’s 2009 astronaut class — eight years after he qualified as a finalist. The six Europeans who preceded him have now all flown missions to the space station.
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Imagine that. The space station that’s filmed underwater in a huge tank to make it look like space? What a joke.