Nicola Baumann

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Nicola Baumann (2010)

Nicola Baumann (born March 10, 1985 in Munich ) is a former German soldier . She was one of the few combat pilots in the Bundeswehr . In 2017 she was able to prevail in a selection process as a finalist in the “Die Astronautin” project, but left the privately financed program. In 2018 she said goodbye to the Bundeswehr.

Life

Training and military career

Nicola Baumann started hang gliding at the age of 16 . Since she was five centimeters too short for a job as a Lufthansa pilot , she applied to the Bundeswehr, where she started with the Air Force in 2004. She studied mechanical engineering in distance learning . Baumann became the second fighter pilot in the Bundeswehr after Ulrike Fitzer . She flew the Panavia Tornado and was a flight instructor in the Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training in the USA. In 2013 she received at Sheppard Air Force Base the award of Flight Commander of the Year 2012 of the 80th US Flying Training Wing. In 2015 she retrained on the Eurofighter . In 2017 she was one of three women in the German Air Force who were allowed to fly this fighter aircraft . She had the rank of major and was stationed with the Tactical Air Force Wing 31 "Boelcke" at the Nörvenich air base . In the same year she took part in the Air Policing Baltic States as a pilot . On May 30, 2018, she said goodbye to the Bundeswehr to work in a management consultancy.

Selection process "The Astronaut"

Baumann was selected from more than 400 applicants as one of two finalists from the privately financed initiative Die Astronautin , which wants to turn a German into an astronaut for the first time. The aim is a short stay of around ten days on the ISS in 2020. The flight, which costs around fifty million euros, is to be financed by donations. Together with Insa Thiele-Eich , daughter of the astronaut Gerhard Thiele , Baumann began a space pilot training in August 2017 at the Russian training center in Svjosdny Gorodok near Moscow , where she completed parabolic flights and which was financed by crowdfunding . The campaign was accompanied by public appearances and interviews in the press and television, and Baumann himself reported on his own YouTube channel.

In December 2017 it became known that Baumann had decided against the candidacy within the initiative; the initiative and she would “not go together”. The astrophysicist Suzanna Randall was nominated as a successor. Baumann, however, reiterated her intention to become an astronaut.

Further professional career

Baumann currently works as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company and also works as a paramedic for the German Red Cross in Cologne.

See also

Web links

Commons : Nicola Baumann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jörg Böckem: Nicola Baumann - "I was five centimeters too small, that's how I got my dream job". In: Zeitmagazin No. 2/2017, January 22, 2017; Retrieved December 26, 2017.
  2. ↑ Sebastian Kempkens: First fighter jet, then rocket. In: Zeit Online. August 23, 2017. Retrieved December 16, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Nicola Baumann is flight group leader of the year. Luftwaffe, February 3, 2013, accessed December 16, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Andreas Ostermeier: Faster way into the cockpit. In: sueddeutsche.de. Süddeutsche Zeitung, March 24, 2015, accessed on December 16, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Video: On the way into space - the sky is not enough. Bundeswehr, April 27, 2017, accessed on December 17, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Thomas Wiegold : Shrinkage in the Eurofighter: A pilot explains her termination. In: eyes straight ahead! May 1, 2018, accessed December 30, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Robert Baumanns: Flown out: Nicola Baumann quits as a pilot. In: Express.de. April 17, 2018. Retrieved April 17, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Die Astronautin: Die Astronautin: Two candidates prevail in the selection process. (PDF) (No longer available online.) April 19, 2017, archived from the original on August 12, 2017 ; Retrieved July 17, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / dieastronautin.de
  9. ↑ Nicola Baumann and Insa Thiele-Eich. Two women for space , Deutschlandfunk on July 15, 2017, accessed on July 16, 2017
  10. ↑ Germany in search of the astronaut of tomorrow. (No longer available online.) In: Zeit Online. dpa, August 14, 2017, archived from the original on December 22, 2017 ; accessed on December 17, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zeit.de
  11. ^ Mrs. Nicola Baumann Youtube channel; Retrieved December 26, 2017.
  12. ^ "Die Astronautin" initiative: German women begin astronaut training , Flugrevue, August 14, 2017
  13. ↑ Germany in search of the astronaut of tomorrow. (No longer available online.) In: Zeit Online. dpa, August 14, 2017, archived from the original on December 22, 2017 ; accessed on December 17, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zeit.de
  14. ↑ Nicola Baumann doesn't want to be the first German woman to go into space , Spiegel online on December 14, 2017, accessed on December 14, 2017
  15. ↑ https://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/neuburg/Diese-Frau-will-zu-den-Sternen-id54783806.html
personal data
SURNAME Baumann, Nicola
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German fighter pilot and space flight candidate
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich