ESA promises to get back to would-be astronauts by the end of 2021

Delays are a way of life for the space community, and the European Space Agency (ESA) has flown past its latest deadline for replying to astronaut applicants. In a post entitled "Astronaut applicants thanked as ESA contacts all candidates," Guillaume Weerts, head of space medicine, admitted that it actually hadn't. The latest …

[Chris G]

Going nowhere

In all probability space will still be there when the ESA does finally get round to communicating with all the applicants.

[John Brown (no body)]

Interesting numbers

The EU has ~25% more population than the USA, and despite so few actual opportunities for ESA astronauts compared to the many more for NASA astronauts, the ESA got almost 50% more applicants.

I wonder how this relates to the education systems, religion and the levels of belief in creationism, flat earth and young earth? Or something else entirely?

[Lars]

The good news

The very good news would be a successful launch of the James Webb telescope before Christmas.