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|  |  |  |  | | | Romania becomes third ESA European Cooperating State 27 February 2006
 | Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA Director General, and Marius-Ioan Piso, President and CEO of the Romanian Space Agency, sign the European Cooperating State Agreement, 17 February 2006 in Bucharest, Romania
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| | | |  | On 14 May 1981, the first Romanian cosmonaut, Dumitru Dorin Prunariu, took part in a Soviet space mission to the Salyut 6 space station. Prunariu remained on the station for eight days, working on scientific experiments with the three other cosmonauts on board.
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