Rosemary Coogan from Antrim is bringing Ireland one step closer to having its first ESA astronaut
Since the human space programme began in the late 1950s, more than 650 people have reached the altitude of space. But only 77 of those spacefarers, a mere 11 per cent, were women.
A date has not yet been announced for Coogan’s space flight. Until then she is happy to remain at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany, where she is working on a number of exciting projects as part of the Artemis programme, which prepares for missions to the moon. “It’s not just the thing being taken away,” she says. “It’s the way that everyone speaks to you and every relationship that you have in your life.”
Patten holds a PhD in aeronautical engineering and works with Réaltra Space Systems as its business development manager. She is also well-known in Ireland for her dream to be the first Irish person in space. At such heights, Virgin passengers unbuckle their seat belts, experience microgravity for four to five minutes and witness a stunning view of the curvature of the Earth. The spacecraft then slowly glides back down to Earth, completing the two-hour experience of a lifetime.
Geraldi carried out IIAS research on a previous Virgin Galactic suborbital flight. She looked at fluid behaviour during five minutes of microgravity, and she promises on her Instagram page that a publication of her research findings is due soon. While no one from Ireland has travelled to space yet, some of the Irish diaspora have made their mark there. Retired Nasa astronaut of Irish descent Cady Coleman spent more than 180 days in space. Proud of her Irish roots, she brought her flute with her on every mission and, to celebrate St Patrick’s Day in 2011, streaming live from the ISS, she played a 100-year-old flute and tin whistle belonging to Matt Molloy and Paddy Moloney of The Chieftains.
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