The European Space Agency's latest intake of astronauts complete their basic training
The European Space Agency's latest intake of astronauts have completed their basic training.
They must now prepare for a specific flight assignment to the space station or perhaps even to the Moon.
Dr Coogan and her colleagues - Sophie Adenot, Pablo Ãlvarez Fernández, Raphaël Liégeois and Marco Sieber - were singled out from more than 22,500 applicants as having the "Right stuff" to go into space.
The quintet's space education doesn't stop.
They will continue honing essential skills, such as understanding spacecraft systems, learning to "Walk in space", and picking up more of the Russian language, which is spoken on the International Space Station along with English.
"The space station remains a collaboration," said Libby Jackson, the head of exploration at the UK Space Agency.
The significance of Monday's graduation is that the group is now eligible to be picked for a space mission.
The US space agency is also committed to going back to the Moon this decade, and, with Esa being a key partner in this endeavour, it's not inconceivable that one of the five graduating on Monday could become the first European citizen in history to step on to the lunar surface.
European industry is providing significant hardware for a lunar space station, which comes with the guarantee that Esa astronauts will get to fly in it.
The engineer from Sydney trained alongside "The Hoppers" in Cologne under a contract between the European and Australian space agencies.