Following in the footsteps of Helen Sharman and Tim Peake, UK-born astrophysicist and astronomer Rosemary Coogan is Britain's third-ever career astronaut.
Selected from over 22,500 applicants to become one of only five new full-time European Space Agency (ESA) astronauts, her Class of 2022 – known as the Hoppers – graduated this April and now joins the existing six members of the European Astronaut Corps selected in 2009.
At 33, Rosemary has an impressive CV. She has a doctorate in astrophysics, studying galaxy evolution, made use of the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) in Hawaii, developed robotics software in the UK, and worked with the James Webb and Euclid Space Telescopes at France's CNES space agency in Paris.
