Meeting in Houston, at the NASA center, with Marco Sieber, our second Swiss astronaut. Originally from Kirchberg (BE), the man who will go into space in three to five years is training on a life-size model of the International Space Station.
Marco Sieber will soon take over from Claude Nicollier in space. To do this, he trains at NASA facilities in Houston. “In this Neutral Buoyancy Laboratorywe train for spacewalks outside the International Space Station. We also practice using the spacesuit and understanding how it works. What do we do in an emergency? It’s very intensive training, but extremely exciting,” he explains in Friday’s 7:30 p.m.
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Its big goal is a flight to the International Space Station. “Afterwards, we will see what the future has in store for us.”
“The chance of becoming an astronaut is very small”
Chosen from 22,000 candidates, he would like to give as his first advice to children who perhaps dream of becoming an astronaut not to bet everything on a single card. “The chance of becoming an astronaut is very small.”
Also asked about Röstigraben, “I think it's certainly something that exists mainly in people's minds. I myself worked in Biel, in a bilingual city, and I didn't really see a gap there. I think we shouldn't really talk about a gap, but rather something great,” he concludes.
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