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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Born in Riga, now part of Latvia, in 1970, Oleg Artemyev was selected to join Russia’s cosmonaut corps in 2003. Oleg has taken part in simulated spaceflight studies to examine how our bodies and minds react to living in isolation. The cosmonaut spent 120 days in isolation on a simulated mission to Mars as a precursor to ESA’s Mars500 study.