 Carol Vorderman's daughter Katie has been giving fascinating insight into her astronaut training as she prepares to spend almost a week in a cave working 25-hour days with no permission to change her socks or T-shirt. Katie, 32, is undertaking the challenge as part of her job as an analog astronaut, which sees her play the role of an astronaut during simulated missions and field tests to help prepare for missions leaving Earth. The PhD-holding scientist has clearly followed in her academic mum's footsteps – who also has a love of flying, being a qualified pilot. However, the Countdown star's daughter is forging her own specific path this week after landing in Spain for the APICES mission, which will see her and her team simulate living in a lava tube on Mars. Katie is Carol's oldest child from her marriage with ex-husband Patrick King. They also share son Cameron, 26. Proud mum Carol, 62, had shared a clip of Katie arriving at Astroland in Cantabria, Spain earlier this week, which is an aerospace start-up acting as a research organisation looking into future living capabilities on the red planet. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Scientist Katie now works as an analog astronaut, and is working and training in Spain currently (Picture: Instagram/katie.science) Her mum Carol is famously a high-profile woman in STEM, who also has a love of flying – she has held the role of Honorary Group Captain in the RAF since 2014 (Picture: Getty) 'We are day one of training and we're here at Astroland for some of our training, we've had medical training, we've gone through all these wearables that we have to wear to look at our heart rate, our breathing, that we have to wear 24/7,' she explained to her followers. 'There's this camera that assesses your emotional state by recognising your face so t){kind=link}
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Carol Vorderman’s daughter Katie has been giving fascinating insight into her astronaut training as she prepares to spend almost a week in a cave working 25-hour days with no permission to change her socks or T-shirt.
Katie, 32, is undertaking the challenge as part of her job as an analog astronaut, which sees her play the role of an astronaut during simulated missions and field tests to help prepare for missions leaving Earth.
The PhD-holding scientist has clearly followed in her academic mum’s footsteps – who also has a love of flying, being a qualified pilot.
However, the Countdown star’s daughter is forging her own specific path this week after landing in Spain for the APICES mission, which will see her and her team simulate living in a lava tube on Mars.