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Marina Rantanen is a young graduate in training at ESA (ESTEC). She likes to work on technologies that will one day be embedded in space.

On mission aboard the International Space Station, Samantha Cristoforetti, 37, an Esa astronaut, is the first European woman to have been in space since Claudie Haigneré. An aerospace engineer, she is also a fighter pilot, a graduate of the École de l'Air and the top of her class in 2005.

Gaitée Hussain is an astronomer at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Garching, Germany. Her job consists in studying the planets around stars other than the Sun and discovering those that would potentially be habitable.

Koralika is an astronomer at the European Southern Observatory in Santiago, Chile. 

Engineer Géraldine Magnan works on the highest part of the Ariane launcher at the Guyana Space Centre in Kourou, on electrical installations.

At the Yuri Gargarin cosmonaut training centre in Moscow, Ksenia is an instructor on the Russian part of space missions. She explains that her passion for everything related to the space conquest goes back to childhood....

Marina Rantanen is working on the "Eurobot" astromobile as part of the Meteron project. This project imagines other ways to explore space.

Anita Vuya is following a Master of Physics at Pwani University in Malindi, Kenya, where she studies the impacts of magnetic storms on wave transmission on Earth. As a woman and an African, Anita has taken up a major challenge: to be a role model for other women who are under pressure to drop out of school and start a family.

As a child, she wanted to become an astronaut... Her studies in applied mathematics and physics have led her to the space field, where she tracks down interesting innovations to be developed, such as an invisibility cloak that deflects acoustic waves from rockets.

This Italian scientist collects data from the meteorological station in the aftermath of a sandstorm. The instruments of the ExoMars program are installed in the desert region of Merzouga in Morocco to study certain parameters common to the Martian surface.

From Noordwijk in the Netherlands, Ana Bolea Alamanac (Esa/Estec) is interested in observing maritime traffic. Thanks to the micro-satellites placed in low orbit, ship beacons are located. Thus, the fight against illegal environmental activities (degassing, fishing...) can get organized!

From space, Ana Martins, head of the oceanography department at the University of the Azores in Portugal, studies ocean colours using the visible spectrum of electromagnetic radiation to observe marine currents and infer properties such as phytoplankton presence, water temperature and salinity. Thanks to satellite oceanography, Ana has reconciled her two passions: space and the ocean.