French President Emmanuel Macron, flanked by members of the VAST space program, French astronaut Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency (ESA), Czech fighter pilot and ESA astronaut Aleö Svoboda, Greek aviation physician and ESA astronaut candidate Adrianos Golemis, Vast Space Program President Giorgio Saccoccia (second from the left), and Greek Prime Minister Kyriákos Mitsotákis, along with French President Emmanuel Macron, at the International Space Summit on September 10, 2026, at the Grand Palais in Paris, September 9, 2026. Nearly 1,100 companies from the space sector will also be present at the Grand Palais, demonstrating the exceptional mobilization of the global space ecosystem around this event, organized by France and Germany