One year ago… The Hoppers graduated! 👩‍🚀👨‍🚀👩‍🚀👨‍🚀👨‍🚀 On 22 April 2024, six extraordinary individuals earned their astronaut wings at our European Astronaut Centre in Germany, marking the start of their official journey into space. Today, we’re celebrating how far they’ve come in just one year. The class of 2022 – affectionately known as The Hoppers – includes our astronauts soph_astro, astro.pablo.esa, astro.rosemary, raphael_astro and esaastro_marco – now bouncing into the next phase of their journey: preparing for missions to the iss Swipe through to see them in action during advanced training – from spacewalk simulations to Zero-G flight. Here’s a taste of what gearing up for space really looks like. - Sophie and Raphaël have already been assigned missions to the International Space Station, scheduled for launch in 2026 - The others are deep in training, with our aim for all five to fly before 2030 - Katherine continues blazing a trail for Australia Their class name,...