BBC Sounds, music. Five. You can actually apply to do that as a job now. Not reading the numbers backwards in

dramatic fashion which I thought I'd always be very good at but the European

Space Agency has opened up its application process for aspiring astronauts for the

first time in 11 years it's a six-stage process which will be completed by October

2022. They're looking for four to six people and they want it to be a mixture of

men and women and also they're looking for someone with a disability to be an astronaut as well for the first time.

Well, somebody who knows all about what it's like being grilled to see if they could be an astronaut, is Dr. Susie Imber from the University of

Leicester. Hello Susie.

Hi.

Now you were in the BBC show Astronauts, do you have what it takes?

Did you end up having what it takes? Did you end up having what it takes?

Well, according to the show, yes, I did win the show,

but we'll have to see.

And what did it take?

Oh, much more than I first thought actually.

So I had this kind of preconception that to be an astronaut you just have to be like super human in terms

of your athletic capability and you know the smartest person on the planet but actually they're not really looking for that I mean it's it's important that you're fit and healthy and it's important that you're you know good technically good at whatever your profession is but actually they were looking for a huge range of things that I hadn't thought about, like how well you're able to communicate with others, whether you're a good team player, whether you're a good leader and communicator, so there's much more to it in fact than I'd first appreciated.

Give us an idea of some of the things that they put you through and how similar that is to what applicants to the European Space Agency will go through?

Well, so some of the tests that we did was sort of directly taken from the European

Space Agency selection last time around and others sort of work sort of a mixture of ideas

really. The person who was the judge was commander Chris Hadfield who's a Canadian

astronaut and so he sort of took resources from different space agencies and each one has a different

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