Found: The selection of Rosemary Coogan, John McFall, Meganne Christian as ESA astronauts and astronauts reserve

Found: ago, which was the longest ceremony in the history of humanity—I am still scarred by it—I met John McFall

Found: Four UK astronauts have been selected under ESA: Tim Peake, Rosemary Coogan, John McFall, and Meganne

Found: Four astronauts have been selected: Tim Peake, Rosemary Coogan, John McFall, and Meganne Christian.

Found: graduated from her basic training as a full- time career astronaut with the European Space Agency; John McFall

Found: graduated from her basic training as a full- time career astronaut with the European Space Agency; John McFall

Found: UK now has five astronauts (Helen Sharman, Tim Peake, Meganne Christian, Rosemary Coogan and John McFall

Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask His Majesty's Government what contribution they are making to human spaceflight, what assessment they have made of whether the UK should establish its own human space flight programme, and what estimate they have made of when a British mission will visit the moon and Mars.

Answered by Lord Vallance of Balham - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)

The UK makes a significant contribution to human space exploration via investment through the European Space Agency (ESA). Rosemary Coogan is now training with NASA in Houston ahead of a long-term mission to the International Space Station. John McFall and Meganne Christian, who are both in the ESA astronaut reserve, are currently training at the European Astronaut Centre in Germany to prepare them for future space missions. These missions are not yet identified.

The UK Space Agency is also working with Axiom Space to explore the potential for a first of-a-kind commercially sponsored UK astronaut mission to the ISS. We have not made a specific estimate of when a British mission will visit the moon or Mars.

International Space Station

Found: According to The Telegraph, the three other British astronauts joining mission are expected to be John McFall

Found: The UK has a new career astronaut (Rosemary Coogan), a parastronaut (John McFall) and a reserve astronaut

Found: astronaut cohort alongside UK Career Astronaut, Rosemary Coogan, and world-first Parastronaut, John McFall

Found: John McFall said: I’m a naturally curious person and I’m excited about the learning ahead, the science

Found: Complete the second stage of training for the UK’s ESA reserve astronauts, Meganne Christian and John McFall

Found: three UK members of ESA’s astronaut corps, including Rosemary Coogan graduating from training and John McFall

Found: three UK members of ESA’s astronaut corps, including Rosemary Coogan graduating from training and John McFall

Found: interactive activities and facilitating a question-and-answer session with our UK astronauts, John McFall

Found: Paralympian John McFall is the world’s first astronaut with a physical disability.

Found: Astronaut reserves John McFall and Dr Meganne Christian undergoing training.

Found: opportunity to engage with British astronauts and reserve astronauts: Tim Peake, Rosemary Coogan, John McFall

Found: John McFall said: It’s great that we can say after a huge amount of work in the last 18 months that

Found: Former Paralympian John McFall was selected as the first ever astronaut with a physical disability.

Found: astronaut cohort alongside UK Career Astronaut, Rosemary Coogan, and world-first Parastronaut, John McFall

Found: John McFall said: I’m a naturally curious person and I’m excited about the learning ahead, the science

Found: The UK has a new career astronaut (Rosemary Coogan), a parastronaut (John McFall) and a reserve astronaut

Found: investment , the UK now has three new ESA Astronauts: Rosemary Coogan, our new career astronaut, John McFall