Mr Vladimir Remek of the Czech Republic, Member of the European Parliament (MEP), shakes hands with ESA astronaut Frank De Winne in the Microgravity Glovebox experiment inside the Columbus laboratory mock-up in ESTEC's Erasmus User Centre, during a visit of MEPs on 11 October 2011. Mr Remek was the first European in space, flying on the Soyuz 28 mission in 1978 as part of the Russian Interkosmos programme.