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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Sergei Korsakov during ESA's underground astronaut training course CAVES, June 2016.
Sergei was born in 1984 in Bishkek, now the Kyrgyz Republic. Sergei has an educational career with honours in engineering specialising on rocket engines. In 2012 he was appointed as a candidate astronaut for the Russian corps and is now a test cosmonaut for Roscosmos.