Experience live how the present-day explorers of space prepare for their missions:
become an ESA Space Trainee!
You train at the training facilities of the European Space Agency ESA, under the supervision of international ESA training experts and with the same manuals used by the future ISS astronauts.
Your training supervisor at the
European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne is Klaus Damian. This ESA specialist played a major role in developing and setting up astronaut training at EAC and was the head of the Astronaut Training Division for many years. He takes you through the training programme and tells you all you want to know about human spaceflight and about the tasks of astronauts.
To get an idea of the ESA Space Training, see the 11 min.
video presentation of HIBN.TV from Belgium: Highlights of ESA Space Training.
Space Trainees are extraordinary people; get to know them and read their
comments about the ESA Space Training (German language).
We are particularly proud of the praise we received from a former ESA astronaut candidate from Ireland. Here is
Leo Metcalfe's testimonial.
