Pesquet
ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet during a June 20 spacewalk outside the International Space Station. Strong interest in a new class of European astronauts some as some in Europe weigh developing an indigenous human spaceflight capability.

A bumper crop of applications for the European Space Agency’s astronaut corps is providing a boost to proposals for Europe to develop its own human spaceflight capability.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...