Chancellor Merkel with Thomas Reiter

At a ceremony to mark the completion of the Columbus laboratory, at EADS, Bremen, 2 May 2006, from left to right:

German Chancellor Angela Merkel,
ESA Council Chair and Chair of the Executive Board of the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) Sigmar Wittig,
ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain (centre), ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter, and Evert Dudok, President of EADS SPACE Transportation (behind)