Graduation ceremony at the EAC in Cologne
Graduation ceremony at the EAC in Cologne
The handover of the certificate, with which Matthias Maurer was officially appointed as an ESA astronaut, took place on 25 September 2018 at the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne. From left to right: Frank De Winne, Head of the EAC, Thomas Jarzombek, Federal Government Coordinator of German Aerospace Policy, Pascale Ehrenfreund, Chair of the DLR Executive Board, Armin Laschet, Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia, ESA Astronaut Matthias Maurer, Tobias Hans, Prime Minister of Saarland, and Johann-Dietrich Wörner, Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA).
