Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has shared a video following his meeting with Adrianos Golemis, who is set to become the first Greek astronaut to participate in a space mission. The Greek Prime Minister hailed the moment as historic for Greece, as Golemis — a space medicine physician — will be the first Greek national to take part in a space mission. The announcement was made at the “Greece in Orbit — Greece in Space: The Next Day” event. “To infinity and beyond. Greece is entering orbit. For the first time in its history, Greece is taking its next giant leap — not on Earth, but in space. Until now, Greece has sent satellites into space. But today, we are preparing to send a Greek person. We have decided to take a historic step: to send the first Greek astronaut into orbit,” Mitsotakis said in the video.
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Kyriakos Mitsotakis: “To infinity and beyond”
As Mitsotakis put it, “This is a mission that carries the vision of a country looking higher than ever before. To infinity and beyond.” One of the more lighthearted moments in the video came when Mitsotakis responded to Golemis by admitting that “I haven’t been to space yet, and it’s not on the immediate agenda.” In a playful touch, Buzz Lightyear from the film Toy Story even made a cameo appearance in the Prime Minister’s video.
In the caption accompanying the video, the Prime Minister wrote: “Adrianos will be in space for the next two years. It is an investment we are making as a country — one with both symbolic and substantive value.”
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