O-Levels at Rygaards International School, Denmark, 1993
International studentereksamen at Copenhagen International School, Denmark, 1995
Master of Engineering degree in Aeronautical Engineering at the Imperial College, London, 1999
Doctor of Philosophy degree in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin, 2007.
He was the first Dane to fly in space as part of the iriss programme. In Denmark he worked as an engineer in the R&Doctorate department of Vestas Wind Systems. He has worked in Germany as an attitude and orbit control system and guidance, navigation & control engineer for HE Space Operations associated with the SWARM mission.
His position when he was selected by European Space Agency was Aerospace Engineering at Surrey Space Centre, University of Surrey.
He currently lives in Cologne, Germany. During his career Mogensen has also spent time in Thailand, Singapore, Portugal, Congo, and the United States.
His pastimes include rugby, mountaineering and diving. Mogensen was selected to become the first Danish astronaut by the European Space Agency in May 2009.
On 10 June 2014, National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced that Mogensen would serve as an aquanaut aboard the Aquarius underwater laboratory during the NEEMO 19 undersea exploration mission, which began on 7 September 2014 and lasted seven days.
Iriss Mogensen’s mission to the ISS was called "iriss". The mission name was chosen from suggestions received from across Europe. "iriss" had two logos, one to highlight the overall mission and one for the educational outreach activities.
On 2 September 2015, Mogensen was launched with Soyuz Turnaround Management Association-18M to ISS, and landed with Soyuz Turnaround Management Association-16M ten days later.
He was travelling with another visiting flight engineer, Aidyn Aimbetov. Among the items Andreas brought along were LEGO figures and a poster for Copenhagen Suborbitals.
Because of the short mission duration, Mogensen worked up to 9.5-hour days instead of the 8-hour workdays that are normal on the station. His missions included remote control of a robot on Earth, and filming Red Sprites and Blue Jets lightnings above thunderclouds, directed from Earth.
He also tried a new kind of Skinsuit to alleviate back-pain astronauts feel due to the lengthening of their spine and used augmented reality goggles during his maintenance tasks.
Mogensen left the station on 11 September 2015. Sergey Volkov was the ascent pilot (Turnaround Management Association-18M) and Gennady Padalka was the descent pilot (Turnaround Management Association-16M). The crew landed at 00:51 UTC on 12 September 2015, just over three hours after departing the ISS. Ph.