ONLINE: 65 Years of Preparing for Spaceflight
The Australian Space Agency’s Katherine Bennell-Pegg, the first Australian to train as an astronaut under the Australian flag, undertook her astronaut training with the European Space Agency. This training encompassed a wide range of skills and disciplines, designed to prepare her for long duration missions on the International Space Station, or trips to the Moon as part of NASA’s Artemis program.
But before the first humans ever ventured into space, no-one knew how the human body might react to spaceflight, so the training given to the first NASA astronauts and Soviet Cosmonauts had quite a different emphasis.
Join space historian Kerrie Dougherty as she explores the ways in which astronaut training has changed and developed across the decades – and how the fundamentals of preparing an astronaut for spaceflight remain the same.
But before the first humans ever ventured into space, no-one knew how the human body might react to spaceflight, so the training given to the first NASA astronauts and Soviet Cosmonauts had quite a different emphasis.
Join space historian Kerrie Dougherty as she explores the ways in which astronaut training has changed and developed across the decades – and how the fundamentals of preparing an astronaut for spaceflight remain the same.
Sunday 12 April 2026 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (UTC+10:30)
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ONLINE: 65 Years of Preparing for Spaceflight
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