ESA’s New Astronaut Class Gets Its First Crew Assignments

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The European Space Agency has announced that Sophie Adenot from France and Raphaël Liégeois from Belgium are the first of its new astronaut class to receive crew assignments. In February 2021, ESA published its first call for new astronauts in more than ten years, which received a record-breaking 22,500 applicants. In…