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Article: SCIENCE AND RESEARCH : EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT CELEBRATES ITS SPACE MEMBER.
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- April 7, 2008
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With four spacemen, two European Union commissioners, a number of MEPs and a few dozen onlookers, the European Parliament saw, on 26 March, a celebration organised for one of its more unusual members. Czech MEP Vladimir Remek (GUE/NGL) was the star of a party to commemorate the 30th anniversary of his flight into space.
Although participating in the former Soviet Union's spaceflight programme for its Communist Eastern European satellites called Interkosmos, Remek is celebrated as the first European in space. He was the first citizen of a country other than the USSR and the United States to see the Earth from orbit. He was on board the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 28 ...