About ESA

ESA is Europe’s comprehensive space agency, active across every area of the space sector and bringing its benefits to people in everyday life, as well as to businesses.

ESA’s European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne, Germany, is the European centre of excellence for astronaut training, operations and space medicine. Home to ESA’s astronaut corps, it equips Europeans to fly to the International Space Station today, while preparing for an exciting future of space exploration beyond low Earth orbit.