Correspondence and documents concerning evolution of relations and opportunities between ESA astronauts and USSR/Russian cosmonauts: Human space flight programme; copy of the agreement with Russia regarding fight opportunities for European astronauts; Marco Polo mission; flights of ESA astronauts and Russian cosmonauts to ISS (International Space Station) aboard Soyuz (Soyuz-TM crew); information on Cosmonautics day I in Berlin, on 6 October 1997; exchange with Gagarin Cosmonauts training centre; ceremony of Russian decoration (Order of Friendship) to ESA astronauts involved in Euromir 94 mission; code of conduct for Euromir mission; participation of a Sovietic cosmonaut in the European Astronauts Training Programme.
The dossier includes copy of the framework agreement between ESA and Russian Space Agency regarding provision of Russian International Space Station flight opportunities; ESA/ASI (Agenzia Spaziale Italiana) agreement on April taxi flight (on participation of ESA astronaut Roberto Vittori as a flight engineer on a Soyuz taxi flight to ISS); protocol concerning the negotiation for the implementation of an ISS flight opportunity involving ESA astronauts of Italian nationality, held at ASI, Rome, on 15-18 October 2001; protocol of the meeting between ESA, CNES (Centre National d’Études Spatiales), Rosaviakosmos on ISS taxi flight, held in Moscow on 22 December 2000; reports of meetings concerning space flight opportunities for European astronauts.
The dossier includes also the following reports: "Space capacities of East European countries"; "Space industries and market in Russia".

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