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4:26 p.m. : Meet ESA’s class of 2022 astronauts ? #ESAastro2022 https://t.co/P77q35qXCZ
4:24 p.m. : Hello . Indeed, here are the names of the other astronauts, as well as their nationality: the Spaniard Pablo Álvarez Fernández, the Briton Rosemary Cooganthe Belgian Raphaël Liégeois, the Swiss Marco Sieber and Briton John McFall as parastronaut, Also note that eleven reserve astronauts have also been named.
4:24 p.m. : That’s all ? I took the ESA video late and saw that 8 people were selected. Why only talk about French? Who are the other Europeans selected?
4:19 p.m. : The French Sophie Adenot takes the floor.
“We have all worked a lot for a year and a half and we are all happy to be here today,” she said, presenting her journey. https://t.co/m2IqXpJQoy
4:16 p.m. : “We have all worked hard for a year and a half and we are all happy to be here today.”
Frenchwoman Sophie Adenot spoke after her appointment.
3:46 p.m. : Sophie Adenot is part of the new class of European astronauts. Aged 40, this engineer is an Air Force officer. She was already the first female helicopter test pilot. 
(FRENCH MINISTRY FOR EUROPE AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS / YOUTUBE)
3:55 p.m. : Sophie Adenot becomes the second French astronaut after Claudie Haigneré, twenty years ago
3:14 p.m. : This decision was taken after tough negotiations. The 22 Member States, gathered for two days in Paris, decided on an envelope up 17% compared to the last three years. However, these 17 billion euros are below the 18.5 billion requested by the Director General of ESA.
3:06 p.m. : “17 billion euros or almost” which will be devoted to the ESA. France, with 9 billion euros for the next 3 years, is the first contributor.
3:05 p.m. : France, with 9 billion euros of participation for the next three years, is the first contributor, specifies the minister.
4:17 p.m. : The European Space Agency (ESA) adopts a budget of 17 billion euros for the next three years, announces the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire.
2:55 p.m. : Everything took a little delay. The presentation of the new promotion of astronauts is shifted to at least 3:20 p.m. It could be a little later.
4:17 p.m. : The presentation of the new class will have “a little late”, informs us our journalist Louis San, present on the spot. It will be done at “at least 3:20 p.m.”even “a bit later”.
4:16 p.m. : Of all these candidates, France applied the most. According to ESA figures (PDF in English), of the 22,523 candidates, 7,087 came from France, 3,695 from Germany, 2,000 from the United Kingdom, 1,845 from Italy, 1,341 from Spain and 1,007 from Belgium.
2:47 p.m. : These four or six lucky winners were selected from among some 22,000 candidates at the start. The ESA recruitment campaign was launched in February 2021.
4:16 p.m. : The European Space Agency (ESA) unveils its new promotion of astronauts, which will include between four and six elected officials. And, suspense… “There will probably be a Frenchman or a Frenchwoman”revealed Philippe Baptiste, CEO of the National Center for Space Studies (Cnes), interviewed on franceinfo. Follow live the presentation of the new promotion of European astronauts.