2022 European Space Agency Astronaut Group

Year selected2022
Number selected5 Career, 12 Reserve/Project
← 2009

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]

  1. ^ "ESA presents new generation of ESA astronauts". www.esa.int. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
  2. ^ "Astronaut selection 2021-22 FAQs". www.esa.int. Archived from the original on 24 August 2022. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
  3. ^ "Hunt on to find British astronaut to go to the moon - here's what you need to qualify". Sky News. Archived from the original on 17 June 2021. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
  4. ^ "Europe launches recruitment drive for female and disabled astronauts". the Guardian. 17 February 2021. Archived from the original on 28 July 2022. Retrieved 17 February 2021.