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Space travel should not be just ‘for the elites’, says new British astronaut | European Space Agency
Rosemary Coogan, European Space Agency’s second UK recruit, will be deployed to ISS for six months
She beat a field of more than 22,000 candidates and has a PhD in astrophysics and a background as a Royal Navy reserve, but the newly qualified British astronaut Rosemary Coogan believes that in future space travel should not be restricted to elites. She does not, however, share the vision of Elon Musk, whose SpaceX rockets regularly carry astronauts to the ISS and who recently asserted that humans could be living on Mars in a self-sustaining city within 20 years. She has a PhD in astrophysics, studying galaxy evolution with the James Webb Space Telescope, and earlier spent years with the Sea Cadets and the Royal Navy Reserve.
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