Year selected | 2022 |
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Number selected | 5 Career, 12 Reserve/Project |
The 2022 European Space Agency Astronaut Group is the latest class of the European Astronaut Corps. The selection recruited five "career" astronauts as well as 12 "reserve/project" astronauts (including one "astronaut with a physical disability").[1] They are the fourth European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut class to be recruited.[2]
The group joined the continuing corps of ESA astronauts, those selected in 2009, to perform both long and short-duration spaceflight missions aboard the International Space Station, and as part of the Artemis program.[3][4]