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.
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The primary crew of Soyuz TMA-6 during the pre-launch press conference at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, on the eve of the spacecraft's launch into space for the Eneide Mission to the International Space Station (ISS). (14 April 2005)
From left to right : John Phillips (NASA) as Second Flight Engineer, Commander Sergei Krikalev (Roscosmos), and the Italian astronaut Roberto Vittori (ESA) as Flight Engineer.