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.
Exploring our Solar System and unlocking the secrets of the Universe
Go to topicProtecting life and infrastructure on Earth and in orbit
Go to topicUsing space to benefit citizens and meet future challenges on Earth
Go to topicMaking space accessible and developing the technologies for the future
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Yelena Serova during spacewalk training at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Russia. Yelena will be the fourth Russian female cosmonaut to travel to space, 17 years after Yelena Kondakova's mission on Space Shuttle STS-84, the last female cosmonaut. Yelena Serova is an engineer and economist and joined the Roscosmos cosmonaut corps in 2011. Her husband is also a cosmonaut and they have one daughter.