What does a day look like for an astronaut in training? Our journalist visits the only Belgian at the astronaut academy | Science & Planet

EXCLUSIVEBy presenting the new class of professional astronauts in 2022, the European Space Agency (ESA) also wrote a piece of Belgian space history. After Dirk Frimout and Frank De Winne, our country gained a third astronaut: Raphaël Liégeois (36). Now that his basic training is coming to an end, our science journalist Martijn Peters looks back with him on his first year at the ESA astronaut academy.