On The Space Show for Wednesday, 15 October 2025:

How to become an astronaut with Rose Tasker

European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut, Andreas Mogensen

Born in Copenhagen, Denmark and selected as an ESA astronaut in 2009, Andreas completed extensive training in spacecraft operations, spacewalks, and extreme environment missions, including ESA CAVES and NASA NEEMO underwater missions. He has served as European liaison officer to NASA’s Johnson Space Center and participated in ESA’s Pangaea field science training.

Andreas has logged two spaceflights: the 10-day ‘iriss’ mission to the ISS in 2015, and the 2023 ‘Huginn’ mission on SpaceX Crew-7, where he became the first non-US pilot of the Crew Dragon and later the longest-serving European commander of the International Space Station.

NASA The Space Story: ROSAT (ROentgen SATellite) was an X-ray observatory developed through a cooperative program between Germany, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

The Chandra X-ray Observatory is the world's most powerful X-ray telescope. It has eight-times greater resolution and is able to detect sources more than 20-times fainter than any previous X-ray telescope.

NASA The Space Story: Fast Auroral SnapshoT (FAST or Explorer 70) was a NASA plasma physics satellite, and the second spacecraft in the Small Explorer program (SMEX). FAST was designed to observe and measure the plasma physics of the auroral phenomena which occur around both of Earth's poles.

Planet Earth - Episode 72:

* Carbon Emissions: Europe’s Regional Carbon Cycle Assessment and Processes project with Prof. Ana Bastos of the Max Planck Institute

* The Copernicus Earth Observation Program supports society by providing authoritative information about the past, present and future climate in Europe and the rest of the World.