Andreas Enevold Mogensen was born on 2 November 1976 and is a Danish engineer and ESA astronaut who is best known for being the first Dane to fly in space as part of the European Space Agency's iriss program.
18 Facts About Andreas Mogensen
2.
Andreas Mogensen will be embarking on his second spaceflight to the ISS onboard SpaceX Crew Dragon as the first non-American to serve as a pilot, scheduled for August 2023.
3.
Andreas Mogensen attended primary school at Rygaards International School in Hellerup, where he graduated in 1992.
4.
Andreas Mogensen received an International Baccalaureate from Copenhagen International School in 1995.
5.
Andreas Mogensen then went to the Imperial College London where he obtained an MEng degree in Aeronautical Engineering in 1999.
6.
Subsequently, Andreas Mogensen earned a PhD degree in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin in 2007.
7.
Andreas Mogensen furthermore worked as a contractor for EADS Astrium in Portugal at the Institute for Systems and Robotics.
8.
Andreas Mogensen was selected to become the first Danish astronaut by the European Space Agency in May 2009.
9.
Andreas Mogensen completed initial training and became a member of the European Astronaut Corps in November 2010.
10.
In 2013, Andreas Mogensen served as cavenaut into the ESA CAVES training in Sardinia, alongside David Saint-Jaques, Soichi Noguchi, Nikolai Tikhonov, Andrew Feustel and Michael Fincke.
11.
On 10 June 2014, NASA announced that Andreas Mogensen would serve as an aquanaut aboard the Aquarius underwater laboratory during the NEEMO 19 undersea exploration mission, which began on 7 September 2014 and lasted seven days.
12.
Between September and November 2021, Andreas Mogensen participated in the fourth edition of ESA PANGAEA training program.
13.
Together with the NASA astronaut Kathleen Rubins, Andreas Mogensen went to the Italian Dolomites, to the Ries Crater in Germany and the volcanic landscapes of Lanzarote, Spain.
14.
On 2 September 2015, Andreas Mogensen was launched with Soyuz TMA-18M to ISS and landed with Soyuz TMA-16M ten days later.
15.
Andreas Mogensen was travelling with another visiting flight engineer, Aidyn Aimbetov.
16.
Andreas Mogensen's missions included remote control of a robot on Earth, and filming Red Sprites and Blue Jets lightnings above thunderclouds, directed from Earth.
17.
Andreas Mogensen tried a new kind of Skinsuit to alleviate back-pain astronauts feel due to the lengthening of their spine and used augmented reality goggles during his maintenance tasks.
18.
Andreas Mogensen received the Danish Royal Medal of Recompense for his efforts.