Matthias Maurer

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Maurer applied to the European Space Agency as an astronaut in 2008, but was not initially appointed to the European Astronaut Corps. He formally joined the European Astronaut Corps in July 2015. In March 2018, he gained certification to perform International Space Station-related spacewalks in the American spacesuit EMU. In 2018 he also successfully graduated from both basic astronaut training and pre-assignment training and thus became fully certified to go to space. On 28 July 2020, Maurer was announced as a backup for Thomas Pesquet for the ISS expedition 65. His own flight is scheduled to take place no earlier than September 2021 aboard SpaceX Crew-3.

Biography from Launch Library 2.

Born in

Sankt Wendel

Education

Saarland University; University of Lorraine; University of Leeds; Polytechnic University of Catalonia; RWTH Aachen University; Ecole européenne d’ingénieurs en génie des matériaux; FernUniversität in Hagen

Awards

Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

From Wikidata.

• Falcon 9 Block 5 | Crew-3Mission Specialist · Success · with Kayla Barron, Raja Chari, Thomas MarshburnNovember 11, 2021

• Expedition 66International Space Station · Flight Engineer2021-10-17 – 2022-03-30