“It’s not a childhood dream, rather a passion“. Julien Dambraine keeps his head on his shoulders, even if she is already a little in the stars. “With my friends, we promised to go into orbit before our 60th birthday“So, when he discovered the European Space Agency’s call for applications on the internet, he thought about it, but not for too long.”I was in all the criteria, I said to myself why notHis file, among the 23,000 selected by ESA, passed the first sorting, then he was interviewed in September. The European Space Agency invited us to Hamburg all expenses paid.
7 hours of training per day
Julien is now in the 2nd circle of the 1500 selected. “The answer must arrive in the next few days to make me enter or not in the 3 or 400“. The road is still long towards a flight, but the plescopais reasonably believes in it and trains. “I spend my days playing sports, reviewing languages, I’m also learning Russian and taking flying lessons. I do this 7 hours a day“.
To Mars
And if by luck, Julien finds himself selected, he already has an idea of what awaits him after a long training. “The first mission would be to go to the Gateway, the planned station in orbit around the Moon. And then _the ultimate stage is Mars_, the big adventure! The end goal is to prepare for it“.