On Friday 17 September 2004, five thousand people experienced life as an astronaut during the 'Night of the astronauts' at the KölnArena in Cologne, Germany. For one night only, twelve members of the European Astronaut Corps brought space to Earth.
Europe's astronauts were joined on stage by Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, a veteran of five spaceflights and a member of the first permanent crew of the ISS, Expedition One.