Katherine Bennell-Pegg is an Australian astronaut and space systems engineer. She is the first professional astronaut to officially represent Australia and the 2026 Australian of the Year.
Katherine is also a Director at the Australian Space Agency, where she has contributed to growing Australia's space capability as technical lead on scoping the Moon to Mars Trailblazer "Roo-ver" lunar mission, developing plans to capitalise on Australia’s space and technology strengths, and managing the Access to Space team (including satellite, infrastructure and launch capability uplift activities).
Date: Wednesday 6 May
Time: 11:00am
Location: Online
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