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    ESA > Our Activities > Human Spaceflight > Astronauts

    New astronauts

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    27 June 2008

    The European Space Agency has just closed its public recruitment drive to find the European astronauts of the future.

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    Thousands of people from the 17 countries that make up ESA responded to this dream of becoming an astronaut, but what are the qualities ESA is looking for?

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