The European Space Agency (ESA) is Europe’s gateway to space. Its mission is to shape the development of Europe’s space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world.
Find out more about space activities in our 23 Member States, and understand how ESA works together with their national agencies, institutions and organisations.
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With ESA’s Principia mission almost complete, British ESA astronaut Tim Peake will shortly be returning to Earth in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. During his six-month stay onboard the International Space Station he has carried out a substantial amount of experimental work in microgravity, ran educational programmes from space, and played an important part in operational activities both onboard and outside the Station.