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
Go to topicThank you for liking
You have already liked this page, you can only like it once!
ESA astronaut Tim Peake (GB) is assigned to fly on the Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft to the International Space Station, scheduled for November 2015 and as part of Expedition 46/47, with cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and NASA astronaut Tim Kopra. Tim, Yuri Malenchenko and Tim Kopra will transfer from Expedition 46 to Expedition 47, which is scheduled to begin with the departure of Soyuz TMA-18M in March 2016, and will be joined by cosmonauts Alexei Ovinchin and Oleg Skripochka and NASA astronaut Jeffrey Williams later that March.
The design for Expedition 47 was created by artists Tim Gagnon and Jorge Cartes, which is based on a stylised Sokol spacesuit helmet visor and shows the view of the International Space Station that would be seen by the crew as they approach in their Soyuz.