Astronaut Rosemary Coogan on overcoming the temptation to ‘swim’ in microgravity
Not many people encounter weightlessness in their day jobs, but for Rosemary Coogan, the UK’s newest astronaut, it was an “extremely exciting” experience where she had to overcome the temptation to “swim” in microgravity, and perform CPR while anchored upside down.
Just a week before gaining her astronaut wings, Ms Coogan and her colleagues were given access to what the European Space Agency (ESA) described as “a taste of space” in the final leg of their basic training.
The new generation of ESA astronauts boarded Airbus’s “Zero G” A310 plane for their
