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Andreas Enevold "Andy" Mogensen (born 2 November 1976) is a Danish engineer and ESA
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who is best known for being the first Dane to fly in space as part of the European Space Agency's Iriss program. Mogensen has also been involved in a number of other space-related projects throughout his career, including working as a
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for
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and as a member of the European Astronaut Corps. In addition to his work with ESA, he has also worked with
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and other international space agencies. He returned to space in August 2023 for his second spaceflight to the ISS onboard SpaceX Crew Dragon as the first non-American to serve as a pilot.


Education and early career

He was born in
Copenhagen Copenhagen ( ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the Urban area of Copenhagen, urban area. The city is situated on the islands of Zealand and Amager, separated from Malmö, Sweden, by the ...
. Mogensen attended primary school at Rygaards International School in
Hellerup Hellerup () is a very affluent district of Gentofte Municipality in the suburbs of Copenhagen, Denmark. The most urban part of the district is centred on Strandvejen and is bordered by Østerbro to the south and the Øresund to the east. It compr ...
, where he graduated in 1992. He received an
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from Copenhagen International School in 1995. He then went to the
Imperial College London Imperial College London, also known as Imperial, is a Public university, public research university in London, England. Its history began with Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria, who envisioned a Al ...
where he obtained an MEng degree in
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in 1999. Between 2001 and 2003 he worked as an engineer in the R&D department of Vestas Wind Systems in Denmark. Subsequently, Mogensen earned a
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degree in
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at the
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in 2007. Furthermore, as part of his studies, he spent a semester at the Instituto Superior Técnico -
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in Lisbon, Portugal. Mogensen worked in Germany as an altitude and orbit control system and guidance, navigation & control engineer for HE Space Operations associated with the SWARM mission. He furthermore worked as a contractor for
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in Portugal at the Institute for Systems and Robotics. In addition, he stayed in a large number of other countries, including Thailand, Singapore, England, Portugal, Congo and the United States. His position when he was selected by ESA was Aerospace Engineering at Surrey Space Centre,
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.


Space career


In ESA

Mogensen was selected to become the first Danish astronaut by the
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in May 2009. He completed initial training and became a member of the European Astronaut Corps in November 2010. In 2013, Mogensen served as cavenaut into the ESA CAVES training in
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, alongside David Saint-Jaques,
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,
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, Andrew Feustel and Michael Fincke. On 10 June 2014, NASA announced that Mogensen would serve as an
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aboard the Aquarius underwater laboratory during the NEEMO 19 undersea exploration mission, which began on 7 September 2014 and lasted seven days. Between September and November 2021, Mogensen participated in the fourth edition of ESA PANGAEA training program. Together with the NASA astronaut Kathleen Rubins, Mogensen went to the Italian Dolomites, to the
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in Germany and the volcanic landscapes of
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, Spain. ESA's Pangaea program prepares astronauts and space engineers to identify planetary geological features for future missions to the Moon, Mars and asteroids.


Iriss

Mogensen's mission to the ISS was called "Iriss". The mission name was chosen from suggestions received from across Europe. "Iriss" had two logos, one to highlight the overall mission and one for the educational outreach activities. On 2 September 2015, Mogensen launched with Soyuz TMA-18M to ISS and landed with Soyuz TMA-16M ten days later. He was traveling with another visiting flight engineer, Aidyn Aimbetov. Among the items Andreas brought along were
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figures and a poster for Copenhagen Suborbitals. Because of the short mission duration, Mogensen worked up to 9.5-hour days instead of the 8-hour workdays that are normal on the station. His missions included remote control of a robot on Earth, and filming Red Sprites and Blue Jets lightnings above thunderclouds, directed from Earth. He also 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. Mogensen left the station on 11 September 2015. Sergey Volkov was the ascent pilot (TMA-18M), and Gennady Padalka was the descent pilot (TMA-16M). The crew landed at 00:51 UTC on 12 September 2015, just over three hours after departing the ISS. Mogensen received the Danish Royal Medal of Recompense for his efforts.


Huginn

In March 2022, he was selected as pilot of SpaceX Crew-7. On its launch in August 2023, he became the first European pilot of a spacecraft and the first pilot of a US spacecraft who is not a US citizen. He also served as the ISS Expedition 70 commander. The European segment of the mission is called "Huginn". Crew-7 and Mogensen returned to Earth on 12 March 2024.


Personal life

He resides in Copenhagen, Denmark. His pastimes include rugby,
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, and
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.


References


External links


Andreas Mogensen blogs about space and the life as an astronaut on the science website Videnskab.dk (in Danish)
Blog on Videnskab.dk
Biography
Lightsey Research Group

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