Romania becomes third ESA European Cooperating State   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   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. Release date: 4 October 2007