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Applications for ESA's Astronaut and Astronaut (with a physical disability) vacancies closed 18 June 2021.Īny questions not answered here may be resolved in the Astronaut and Astronaut (with a physical disability) vacancy notices released on 31 March 2021. New application deadline: due to Lithuania's new status as an ESA Associated Member, the application period was extended by three weeks. On this page, frequently asked questions have been broken up into eight different sections. They may also have the opportunity to become career astronauts in the future. Unlike career astronauts, reserve astronauts will not be permanent ESA staff, but could have the opportunity to be selected for specific projects, as project astronauts. This campaign will select astronauts as career astronauts (the astronaut corps) or into the newly created reserve pool of astronauts. This is an exciting and also a rare occasion as, before this, ESA has issued a call for astronauts only three times since 1978 – the most recent being in 2008. ESA plans to recruit 4-6 new astronauts through its 2021-22 selection process to support the future of European space exploration. As of, nationals of Lithuania may also apply.

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Nationals from Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom plus Slovenia and Latvia may apply to the ESA Astronaut and Astronaut (with a physical disability) vacancy notices. With 22 member states and 3 associate members, ESA is a truly transnational space agency.

Once again, we thank you wholeheartedly for your application and your patience as we select the next class of ESA astronauts. Under the revised processing timeline, it is expected that you will be notified of the outcome of your application by the end of November 2021 at the latest. We fully understand how important these applications are to candidates, and are working to let everyone who applied know the outcome of their application as soon as possible. We ask you for your patience as we process applications and issue these invitations. Please note, if you have not yet been invited, this does not necessarily mean that your application is not being considered. Candidates are being invited progressively due to the work involved in this process and the need to consider COVID-19-related travel restrictions. This step has already started and will last until at least the end of the year.

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The next step for successful candidates is an invitation to a full day of testing at a facility in Europe. However, more than 80% of all remaining, eligible applications are still under review. Upon completion of the pre-screening stage, we concluded that some applications did not fulfil the requirements stated in the applicable documentation, and the concerned applicants were notified immediately. With the considerable number of applicants, this simply takes more time than was initially foreseen. At ESA, we firmly believe that every application should receive the attention it deserves. This was far beyond ESA’s most optimistic forecasts and – while it is a very positive sign of the interest in space activities – processing this volume of applications requires a great deal of work. Many applicants have inquired about when they will be notified about their application’s progress and what the next steps will be.Īs you may have heard, the call for applications was hugely successful, attracting more than 23 000 candidates. Thank you to everyone who applied to ESA’s Astronaut and Astronaut (with a disability) vacancies. If your question is not answered below, it may be answered in the Astronaut Applicant Handbook or vacancy notices. This page addresses some of the most frequently asked questions about becoming an ESA astronaut.

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