Mogensen

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Birth date:  02 Nov 1976 Birthplace:  Copenhagen Marital status:  married Children:  one Grade / Fonction:   Selection date:  20 May 2009 Selection group:  ESA-3 / EAC Job:  MSP Status:  active

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• He received a master′s degree in engineering from Imperial College, London, and a doctorate in engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, in the United States. He has been working as an attitude & orbit control system and guidance, navigation & control engineer for HE Space Operations. His pastimes include rugby, mountaineering and diving.
• Andreas Mogensen was selected as an ESA astronaut in May 2009 and completed the astronaut basic training programme at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany in November 2010. Since completing the astronaut basic training programme, Andreas Mogensen has been trained and certified as a private pilot by the Lufthansa flight school and is trained and qualified for spacewalks using both the American EMU spacesuit and the Russian Orlan suit. Andreas Mogensen participated in the 2012 ESA CAVES underground training course, as part of an international team of six astronauts, living underground for a week and exploring a cave system in Sardinia. The ESA CAVES training is a space-mission analogue, focusing on human behaviour and performance in extreme environments. Andreas Mogensen was also selected as a crewmember in two NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) missions. He participated in the NEEMO 17 mission (also called SEATEST 2) in September 2013 and in the NEEMO 19 mission in September 2014. Both missions took place at the Aquarius undersea research laboratory, off the coast of Florida, USA, as an analogue for space exploration missions.
• In addition to his astronaut training activities, Andreas Mogensen worked on the engineering team for the ESA Lunar Lander mission at ESA’s technical heart, ESTEC, in the Netherlands, where he was involved in the design of the guidance, navigation and control system for precision landing. Andreas Mogensen is a qualified Eurocom at the Columbus Control Centre in Munich, where he communicates with the astronauts on the International Space Station.