Rosemary Coogan (@Astro

UK Space Agency

@spacegovuk

Dec 24, 2024

2024 has been a busy year for UK @esa astronaut @Astro_Rosemary, who graduated from ESA astronaut training and is beginning a six-month pre-assignment training programme at @NASA_Johnson. 👩‍🚀 Hear more from Rosemary as she looks back on 2024. 👇

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諏訪　理/Makoto Suwa

@AstroMakotoSuwa

Dec 20, 2024

Simulating a regular day on the #InternationalSpaceStation. Enjoyed this training with my fellow astronauts, @Astro_Rosemary and @AstroAyu

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Ayu Yoneda / 米田あゆ

@AstroAyu

Dec 21, 2024

My fellow astronauts Makoto and Rosemary had their first NBL run for EVA training 🤗👩‍🚀 To simulate a micro-gravity, astronauts wear spacesuits and train in a large pool using neutral buoyancy. It may look fun as they float, but working in a spacesuit is actually very demanding!

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Dec 13, 2024

🧤 Glove is in the air! ✈️🫶 Discover how @Astro_Rosemary, @astro_slawosz, and @iamfivetoes from @esa's newest astronaut class took to the skies with @AirZeroG to get hands-on with European-made space equipment. On the @Space_Station, gloveboxes are used to conduct experiments

ESA astronaut Rosemary Coogan working with the glovebox during a parabolic flight. Credits: Novespace

Member of the ESA astronaut reserve John McFall during a parabolic flight campaign. Credits: Novespace

ESA project astronaut Sławosz Uznański working with the glovebox during a parabolic flight. Credits: ESA/Novespace

Last week: studying the Ries impact crater in Germany! ☄️ The crater is around 25km wide and was created from an asteroid impact 15 million years ago. Although Earth has experienced many impacts over its lifetime, a lot of evidence for that has gone, as the tectonic plates move

I found this incredible - the first micrometeorite, found in 2015, was spotted by Jon Larsen as it sat on the table beside his food (it’s barely possible to see in the mock-up photo - next to the bowl of strawberries). Micrometeorites are the same size as what I would think of as

ESA CAVES & PANGAEA

@ESA_CAVES

Sep 16, 2024

A surprise visit to the exhibit of micrometeorites at the Ries Crater Museum from the #PANGAEA trainees rieskrater-museum.de/ausstellungser… @Arno_astro @Astro_Rosemary @Astro_Kanai @esaspaceflight

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Sep 19, 2024

Astronauts meet meteorites 👨‍🚀👩‍🚀☄️ 🔎 🪨 How to recognise these space rocks, trace their origins and understand its history in our Solar System are challenges for the astronauts taking part in @esa’s PANGAEA geology course. 🔗 blogs.esa.int/caves/2024/09/…

Meteorite expert Anna Barbaro explains the difference between several samples to JAXA astronaut Kanai Norishige and ESA's Rosemary Coogan and Arnaud Prost.

It’s been an eye-opening first week of PANGAEA training with @Arno_astro, @Astro_Kanai and the @ESA_CAVES team! We’ve been learning which geological features are important to identify and how to report them - which is especially important for future exploration missions to the

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Sep 11, 2024

From the classroom to the field, Earth is the ultimate textbook 📚🏔️🌍 Astronauts learn to sketch landscapes, identify rocks and unravel geological stories during PANGAEA. 📸 flickr.com/photos/europea…

ESA Astronaut Rosemary Coogan reviews the drawing of an outcrop located in the Bletterbach canyon, Italy.

PANGAEA course instructor Matteo Massiorni shows every detail of the different rock samples to the trainees Rosemary Coogan, Arnaud Prost and Norishige Kanai.

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ESA CAVES & PANGAEA

@ESA_CAVES

Sep 10, 2024

After learning basic rock observation and outcrop drawing and description skills @Astro_Rosemary @Arno_astro & @Astro_Kanai are ready for a field traverse to discover the chapters of the book of geological layering of @Bletterbach - in the meanwhile, photos from past days are

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Sep 9, 2024

Astronauts are back in geology school. 🪨⛏️ #PANGAEA training course launches its 7th edition with: 👩‍🚀 Rosemary Coogan, @esa astronaut. 👨‍🚀 Norishige Kanai, @JAXA_en astronaut. 🧑‍🚀 Arnaud Prost, @esa's astronaut reserve. A mix of theory and field trips, the course starts in

ESA astronaut Rosemary Coogan observes the details of a rock sample through a magnifying glass.

ESA member of the European astronaut reserve Arnaud Prost investigates the texture and components of a rock sample using a magnifying glass during a geology lesson.

JAXA astronaut Norishige Kanai notes his observations on a rock sample during the first theory lessons of ESA's PANGAEA geology training course.

I loved talking to so many schoolchildren excited about space and science today 🤩 We also had a chance to meet the incredibly gifted international teams of students taking part in this year’s rocketry challenge 🚀 I had the pleasure of chatting with @claranellist and Jessica

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