Parabolic flying and drinking at the same time: the two first female astronaut trainees from Germany came to Moscow on 15 August 2017. Nicola Baumann and Insa Thiele-Eich have completed their first ten parabolic flights as part of their training […]

Berlin, 19 April 2017 – The decision has been made: Nicola Baumann, a Eurofighter pilot from Cologne, and Insa Thiele-Eich, a meteorologist from Bonn, have won over four other candidates in the finals of the initiative “Die Astronautin. The two […]

Nicola Baumann, born on March 10, 1985 in Munich, is a Eurofighter pilot with the German armed forces in Nörvenich near Cologne. At the moment, she has the rank of Major and is responsible for, among other things, airspace surveillance […]