European Space Agency

Dr Meganne Christian parabolic flight

The sky has proven to not be the limit for the UNSW Engineering alumna, who is poised to become the first Australian woman in space.

Meganne Christian

Dr Meganne Christian has been appointed as a trainee astronaut for the European Space Agency after being selected from more than 22,500 applicants.  

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As NASA’s Perseverance rover lands on Mars, UNSW is playing a key role in the search for life on the red planet. In July 2019, Professor Martin Van Kranendonk took a team of NASA and European Space Agency scientists to the Pilbara, in the Western Australian outback.

Luke Steller teaching students how to find fossils

As Perseverance prepares to launch for Mars, two UNSW PhD students look back on a field trip that gave Indigenous high school students a behind-the-scenes look at the rover’s upcoming mission.