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Astronaut Katherine Bennell-Pegg is 2026 Australian of the Year

  • Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
A young man in a blazer and tie smiles broadly

The first Australian to qualify as an astronaut under Australia’s space program, Katherine Bennell-Pegg, is the 2026 Australian of the Year.

Bennell-Pegg, 41, who has yet to go to space, graduated from Basic Astronaut Training in 2024 as part of a class of six trained by the European Astronaut Centre in Germany. She was the first...

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