Suzanna Randall

Suzanna Randall

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Suzanna Randall in an interview at Bayern 1 (March 2019). Interviewer: Thorsten Otto.

Suzanna Randall (born 1979 in Cologne ) is a German astrophysicist . She is being trained as an astronaut as part of the private initiative Die Astronautin .

job

Randall grew up in the Bergisch Gladbach district of Gierath and graduated from the Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Gymnasium in Bergisch Gladbach in 1998 . She studied astronomy at University College London from 1998 to 2002 and did her master's degree with a thesis on pulsating blue sub-dwarf stars. From 2002 to 2005 she was a PhD student in astrophysics at the University of Montreal in Canada with Gilles Fontaine and completed her dissertation in 2006 with the title Asteroseismological Studies of Long- and Short-Period Variable Subdwarf B Stars . From 2006 to 2009 she was a Fellow at ESO Garching working on the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile . From 2009 to 2010 she was a research assistant for the VLT at ESO Garching and has been a scientist at the European ALMA regional center at ESO Garching since 2010 .

Participation in The Astronaut

Suzanna Randall had unsuccessfully applied for the astronaut selection of the European Space Agency (ESA) in 2008/2009. In 2016, she applied as one of 400 participants in the privately financed initiative Die Astronautin , which aims to make a German astronaut for the first time. The aim is a short stay of around ten days on the ISS in 2021. The flight, which costs around 50 million euros, is to be financed by donations. After Nicola Baumann and Insa Thiele-Eich were first selected in April 2017, Nicola Baumann left voluntarily in December 2017. In February 2018, Randall was selected as a successor.

She takes flying lessons to get a private pilot license. Your astronaut training is part-time.

Randall joined the television show I Know Everything! In November 2018 . on.

documentation

• Astronaut dream job: Suzanna Randall reaches for the stars, 2019

See also

• List of spacemen
• German spacemen
• Renate Brümmer and Heike Walpot , two former German space trainees

Web links

• Literature by and about Suzanna Randall in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Brief portrait on the website of "Die Astronautin"
• The first German woman in space - “manned space travel” is to become more feminine. A private initiative is currently preparing the mission of the first German female astronaut. Room One - The Patient magazine of KBV , No 4/2019, Winter 2019, pp 58-60.. 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Adnan Akyüz: First Germans in space ?: Cologne woman reaches for the stars. March 7, 2017, accessed on August 9, 2020 (German). 
2. ↑ Dr. Suzanna Randall: Part-time job astronaut , MDR Sputnik , mdr.de, October 5, 2018
3. ↑ Astrophysicist replaces Eurofighter pilot. In: Spiegel Online . February 15, 2018, accessed April 3, 2019 . 
4. ↑ We start in 2021. In: Die Astronautin. Retrieved February 21, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Die Astronautin: Die Astronautin: Two candidates prevail in the selection process. April 19, 2017. Retrieved April 3, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Application as an astronaut. Jury selects fighter pilot and meteorologist as winners , Spiegel online on April 19, 2017, accessed on April 3, 2019
7. ↑ Astronaut training: Suzanna Randall from Munich learns to fly , Augsburger Allgemeine August 22, 2018
8. ↑ Space travel: How do you become an astronaut? , Süddeutsche Zeitung, February 22, 2019
9. ↑ Interview: Suzanna Randall wants to become the first German woman in space , Augsburger Allgemeine , November 15, 2018
10. ↑ Dream job astronaut: Suzanna Randall reaches for the stars , YouTube , Bayerischer Rundfunk, May 23, 2019