ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen on dreams, infinity and training for space

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Denmark’s first astronaut, Andreas Mogensen will accompany opera singer-turned space tourist Sarah Brightman to the ISS on 1st September 2015 on a 10 day mission. He was born in Copenhagen in 1976 and studied aeronautical engineering at Imperial College London, including a semester at IST Lisbon. He has a doctorate in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He enjoys scuba diving, skydiving, kite surfing, kayaking and mountaineering.