![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She said the one-year astronaut recruitment process, prior to the training, was the greatest challenge she had faced to date and it had stretched her to her limits. This was the first opportunity Dr Sidey-Gibbons had had to visit colleagues and students at the Department since 2017, when she was recruited to the CSA as a member of the NASA astronaut class, alongside Gates Cambridge Scholar Kayla Barron.Īs part of the Department’s ‘Inspirational Engineers’ talk series, Dr Sidey-Gibbons, Lecturer in Internal Combustion Engines, shared with students and staff her experience of the two-year astronaut training programme held at the Johnson Space Center, in Houston, Texas. Have a lot more confidence in yourself, because you should never be the one to say no to yourself or turn yourself away from an opportunity. The first big lesson I learned was not to discount myself early on in the process. ![]()
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