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The UK has a new astronaut currently undergoing six months of training at NASA.

Dr Rosemary Coogan holds two master’s degrees from Durham University in Physics and Astronomy and is scheduled to get a mission by 2030 but her space career could last for the next 35 years.

It means she may be the first Briton to walk on the Moon — and possibly even go to Mars.

Our Science Editor Rebecca Morelle has been to see how the latest phase of her training has been going.