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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ESA astronaut Frank De Winne and NASA astronaut Nicole Stott
work the controls of the JEM Robotic Manipulator System in the Japanese Kibo laboratory of the International Space Station. De Winne and Stott used the robot arm to grapple the exposed pallet from the Station's Canadarm2 and berth it to the JEM Exposed Facility / Exposed Facility Unit 10 on 23 September 2009.