May 29, 2026 · 42 min · 13 segments
Join us as we explore the fascinating world of space, astronaut training, and how space industry insights can inspire careers. Thomas Mueller, founder of Ostronaut, shares his journey from STEM…
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Before I go back to your school day, just give us a little bit of a sense, what does, uh, what does Astronaute do?
So, uh, amongst several different things that I'm working on at the moment, one of the main things I'm doing is workshops and training programs that teach the skills and capabilities that astronauts have.
Um, and that may be for the broad public to, to take those skills and apply them to their everyday life and whatever they're doing to become, you know, a better performer or, you know, more, more capable of, um, dealing with difficult situations.
But also I'm doing it for the people that are interested in becoming astronauts and, and want a pathway or a stepping stone to, to that, uh, objective.
That sounds, uh, it's like something we're gonna enjoy unpacking a little bit over the next, uh, 20 minutes or so because, you know, I'm a lot older than you, Thomas, and it's funny enough, I was reading a thing at the weekend about William Shatner, who you probably remember is the original Captain Kirk, who I believe is 94, um, or just something like that.
And back when I was a little kid, we were all watching "Star Trek," and space then really did seem an awful long way away, and "Star Trek" was a fiction, and obviously we had, uh, the first moon landings and, um, you know, the, the, the, the, the, the Kennedy man on the moon piece and all that.
But fast-forwarding to today, um, space and aerospace are much more part of the, uh, uh, I guess the re- the reality.
Uh, satellites, Starlink, um, just that recent, uh, thing to the, to the, the far side of the moon.
It's definitely having some, some big exposure at the moment, uh, in the last few years.
I mean, even just the news in the last few days about the SpaceX IPO and potentially being the most valuable company, you know, ever.
Um, I think since, you know, the original Apollo missions and Mercury and things like that, it's, it's always been, been there.
But I, I would think that it's maybe having a big renaissance in, in the last decade, um, probably.
Before I go back to your school day, just give us a little bit of a sense, what does, uh, what does Astronaute do?
So, uh, amongst several different things that I'm working on at the moment, one of the main things I'm doing is workshops and training programs that teach the skills and capabilities that astronauts have.
Um, and that may be for the broad public to, to take those skills and apply them to their everyday life and whatever they're doing to become, you know, a better performer or, you know, more, more capable of, um, dealing with difficult situations.
But also I'm doing it for the people that are interested in becoming astronauts and, and want a pathway or a stepping stone to, to that, uh, objective.
That sounds, uh, it's like something we're gonna enjoy unpacking a little bit over the next, uh, 20 minutes or so because, you know, I'm a lot older than you, Thomas, and it's funny enough, I was reading a thing at the weekend about William Shatner, who you probably remember is the original Captain Kirk, who I believe is 94, um, or just something like that.
And back when I was a little kid, we were all watching "Star Trek," and space then really did seem an awful long way away, and "Star Trek" was a fiction, and obviously we had, uh, the first moon landings and, um, you know, the, the, the, the, the, the Kennedy man on the moon piece and all that.
But fast-forwarding to today, um, space and aerospace are much more part of the, uh, uh, I guess the re- the reality.
Uh, satellites, Starlink, um, just that recent, uh, thing to the, to the, the far side of the moon.
It's definitely having some, some big exposure at the moment, uh, in the last few years.
I mean, even just the news in the last few days about the SpaceX IPO and potentially being the most valuable company, you know, ever.
Um, I think since, you know, the original Apollo missions and Mercury and things like that, it's, it's always been, been there.
But I, I would think that it's maybe having a big renaissance in, in the last decade, um, probably.
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