Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA Director General, and Simonetta Di Pippo, ESA Director of Human Spaceflight, during the Human Spaceflight and Exploration in Europe conference at the ESA Pavilion at the Paris Air Show, Le Bourget, 16 June 2009.
The six new recruits to the European Astronaut Corps were also present at the conference, seated to the left - from left to right: Thomas Pesquet, Timothy Peake, Luca Parmitano, Andreas Mogensen, Alexander Gerst and Samantha Cristoforetti.