First Australian Citizen Qualifies as an Astronaut

Quite a few children look up at the sky and dream of one day becoming an astronaut, but only a tiny number actually reach for the stars, and an even smaller number pass the exacting training required to succeed. But growing up on Sydney’s northern beaches, Katherine Bennell-Pegg was determined to head into space. In high school, she was asked to list three careers she aspired to pursue. She only wrote down one response—astronaut. With her parents’ encouragement, she studied Maths, English, Chemistry, Physics, and Economics in her final year of high school and took part in a range of extra-curricular activities targeting a career in space: aerobatic flying lessons, amateur astronomy, sports, and debating....