{"id":797641,"date":"2025-08-07T03:18:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T08:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=797641"},"modified":"2025-08-07T03:18:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T08:18:05","slug":"esa-esa-astronaut-raphael-liegeois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=797641","title":{"rendered":"ESA &#8211; ESA Astronaut Rapha\u00ebl Li\u00e9geois"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>ESA astronaut Rapha\u00ebl Li\u00e9geois from Belgium, a member of the ESA Astronaut Class of 2022, was selected in November 2022 from over 22,500 candidates who applied to ESA\u2019s 2021 call for new astronauts.<\/p>\n<p>He began his year-long basic astronaut training at ESA\u2019s European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne, Germany, in April 2023. This training covered spacecraft systems, spacewalking, flight engineering, robotics, life support systems, survival, and medical training. Rapha\u00ebl received his astronaut certification alongside fellow astronaut candidates Sophie Adenot, Rosemary Coogan, Pablo \u00c1lvarez Fern\u00e1ndez, and Marco Sieber at EAC on 22 April 2024, officially marking his transition into a fully-fledged astronaut.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In June 2024, Rapha\u00ebl was announced for his first spaceflight mission, currently scheduled for 2026 to the International Space Station. After completing his pre-assignment training, he is now in mission-specific preparation, focusing on the tasks and experiments he will perform during his stay on the Space Station.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>French:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>L\u2019astronaute de l\u2019ESA Rapha\u00ebl Li\u00e9geois, originaire de Belgique, est membre de la promotion 2022 des astronautes de l\u2019ESA. Il a \u00e9t\u00e9 s\u00e9lectionn\u00e9 en novembre 2022 parmi plus de 22 500 candidats ayant r\u00e9pondu \u00e0 l\u2019appel \u00e0 candidatures lanc\u00e9 par l\u2019ESA en 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Il a d\u00e9but\u00e9 sa formation de base d\u2019un an au Centre europ\u00e9en des astronautes (EAC) de l\u2019ESA \u00e0 Cologne, en Allemagne, en avril 2023. Cette formation couvrait les syst\u00e8mes spatiaux, les sorties extrav\u00e9hiculaires, l\u2019ing\u00e9nierie de vol, la robotique, les syst\u00e8mes de survie, les techniques de survie et la formation m\u00e9dicale. Rapha\u00ebl a obtenu sa certification d\u2019astronaute aux c\u00f4t\u00e9s de ses camarades Sophie Adenot, Rosemary Coogan, Pablo \u00c1lvarez Fern\u00e1ndez et Marco Sieber \u00e0 l\u2019EAC le 22 avril 2024, marquant officiellement son passage au statut d\u2019astronaute confirm\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>En juin 2024, Rapha\u00ebl a \u00e9t\u00e9 annonc\u00e9 pour sa premi\u00e8re mission spatiale, actuellement pr\u00e9vue pour 2026 \u00e0 destination de la Station spatiale internationale. Apr\u00e8s avoir termin\u00e9 sa formation de pr\u00e9-affectation, il est d\u00e9sormais en pr\u00e9paration sp\u00e9cifique \u00e0 la mission, ax\u00e9e sur les t\u00e2ches et les exp\u00e9riences qu\u2019il m\u00e8nera lors de son s\u00e9jour \u00e0 bord de la Station.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>Dutch:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>ESA-astronaut Rapha\u00ebl Li\u00e9geois uit Belgi\u00eb maakt deel uit van de ESA-astronautenklas van 2022. Hij werd in november 2022 geselecteerd uit meer dan 22.500 kandidaten die reageerden op ESA&#8217;s oproep\u00a0voor nieuwe astronauten\u00a0in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>In april 2023 begon hij aan zijn eenjarige basisopleiding tot astronaut bij het European Astronaut Centre (EAC) van ESA in Keulen, Duitsland. De opleiding ging over ruimtevaartsystemen, ruimtewandelingen, vluchtoperaties, robotica, levensondersteunende systemen, overlevingstechnieken en medische training. Rapha\u00ebl behaalde zijn astronautencertificaat samen met zijn collega\u2019s Sophie Adenot, Rosemary Coogan, Pablo \u00c1lvarez Fern\u00e1ndez en Marco Sieber op 22 april 2024 aan het EAC, waarmee hij officieel erkend werd als volwaardig astronaut.<\/p>\n<p>In juni 2024 werd Rapha\u00ebls eerste ruimtevlucht\u00a0aangekondigd, momenteel gepland voor 2026 naar het Internationaal Ruimtestation. Na zijn geavanceerde training, is hij nu in specifieke missievoorbereiding, gericht op de taken en experimenten die hij zal uitvoeren tijdens zijn verblijf in het ruimtestation.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>German:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Der belgische ESA-Astronaut Rapha\u00ebl Li\u00e9geois geh\u00f6rt zur Astronautenklasse 2022 der ESA. Er wurde im November 2022 aus \u00fcber 22.500 Bewerberinnen und Bewerbern ausgew\u00e4hlt, die sich auf den Aufruf der ESA zur Astronautenbewerbung im Jahr 2021 gemeldet hatten.<\/p>\n<p>Im April 2023 begann er seine einj\u00e4hrige Basisausbildung zum Astronauten am Europ\u00e4ischen Astronautenzentrum (EAC) der ESA in K\u00f6ln, Deutschland. Diese Ausbildung umfasste Raumfahrtsysteme, Au\u00dfenbordeins\u00e4tze, Flugtechnik, Robotik, Lebenserhaltungssysteme, \u00dcberlebenstraining und medizinische Schulungen. Am 22. April 2024 erhielt Rapha\u00ebl gemeinsam mit seinen Kolleginnen und Kollegen Sophie Adenot, Rosemary Coogan, Pablo \u00c1lvarez Fern\u00e1ndez und Marco Sieber am EAC sein Astronautenzertifikat \u2013 ein offizieller Schritt zum vollwertigen Astronauten.<\/p>\n<p>Im Juni 2024 wurde Rapha\u00ebl f\u00fcr seine erste Raumfahrtmission angek\u00fcndigt, die derzeit f\u00fcr 2026 zur Internationalen Raumstation geplant ist. Nach Abschluss seines Pre-Assignment-Trainings befindet er sich nun in der missionsspezifischen Vorbereitung und konzentriert sich auf die Aufgaben und Experimente, die er w\u00e4hrend seines Aufenthalts auf der Raumstation durchf\u00fchren wird.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2025\/08\/ESA_Astronaut_Raphael_Liegeois?rand=772187\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESA astronaut Rapha\u00ebl Li\u00e9geois from Belgium, a member of the ESA Astronaut Class of 2022, was selected in November 2022 from over 22,500 candidates who applied to ESA\u2019s 2021 call&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":797642,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-797641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=797641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/797642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=797641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=797641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=797641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}