It may sound incredible, and certainly a few years ago, with Greece in crisis and on the brink of Grexit, nobody would have believed it, but Greece is going to send a person into space.
Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced this after a meeting with Adrianos Golemis, the only Greek who has successfully passed all astronaut tests since 2022 and who entered the European Space Agency (ESA) training programme a few months ago.
The launch is expected to take place within the next two years and the mission will last up to three weeks, as part of the new National Space Strategy, which looks ahead to 2035.
The decision was taken on Thursday at a meeting at the Maximos Mansion and was announced on Friday morning.
Over the next two years, Adrianos will be travelling into space. It is an investment we are making as a country, which has both symbolic and substantive value.
