Swiss astronaut Marco Sieber completes NASA space station training

Swiss astronaut Marco Sieber has just completed six months of training at the US space agency NASA in Texas. This takes him a step closer to travelling to the International Space Station. Sieber, 35, who is part of the European Space Agency (ESA) corps, was recently in Houston, Texas, at NASA headquarters for an intensive six-month training course. This takes him closer to his dream of flying in space and being part of the crew of the International Space Station (ISS). “It will be before 2030, I hope,” he told Swiss public television, RSI. “Training for a long-term mission of at least six months takes three years. And I'm still a year-and-a-half away from being able to go into space.” During his training at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory in Houston, the world's largest swimming pool, Sieber immersed himself in an environment that imitates weightlessness. “There's basically an entire space station underwater,” he explains. “If you look there, those round modules are where the ...