Team experiment CFS-A at Kennedy Space Center, NASA, Florida: Neil Melville - ESA Management; Dumit

Launched some time ago an invitation to readers of this site to ask questions of Mr. Dumitru Hasegan coordinator Romanian experiment first carried by the space shuttle Discovery (on his last flight before withdrawing aerospace dynamics the museum) on the International Space Station. He was extremely helpful and parsec.ro the invitation, so that you can read in the following interview, very interesting, which reveals little backstage Romanian team collaboration with ESA, NASA and the Russian Space Agency, what means an experiment in Earth orbit and the Romanian contributions in this area.
Team experiment CFS-A at Kennedy Space Center, NASA, Florida: Neil Melville - ESA Management; Dumitru Hasegan - Principal Investigator, Institute of Spoatiale Sciences, Bucharest, Romania; Piet Rosiers - Payload Developer QinetiQ Space nv, Belgium: Peter Nobmann - CFS-A PIM (Payload Integration Manager), EADS-Astrium, Bremen, Germany: Steven Hens - Payload Developer QinetiQ Space nv, Belgium: Ioana Gomoiu - Co Investigator Institute of Biology of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
parsec.ro: Can you give a brief history of the Romanian space research, along with a description of the institute that you drive? What space projects carried Romania before 1989, and in what context they were resumed after 1990?
Dumitru Hasegan: In 1965 it was proposed to develop research collaboration and use of outer space for peaceful purposes by studying scientific and technical ability and interests of different countries. In 1967, due to negotiations on the content and form of such collaboration has completed a complex program, in 1970, received the "Intercosmos program." To coordinate this activity in Romania, was founded in 1968 "Romanian Commission for Space Activities (CRAS)" in composition which became representatives of interested aerospace dynamics ministries in scientific research and / or use of outer space or space development techniques, as well as specialists research institutes and higher education. The main goals of CRAS were plans for future space research and financing of such research. The main areas of activity are: physics, medicine, biology, communications, meteorology and remote sensing. aerospace dynamics
The first period covers obviously Romanian participation of researchers, aerospace dynamics as well as those of other Central and Eastern European countries, the "Intercosmos program." Now, in terms of time, it may highlight some of the overall results of the association: the researchers from these countries had the opportunity to participate in various space projects, including aerospace dynamics direct aerospace dynamics access to satellites and space stations; have created networks of institutes and university departments who worked in the spatial domain or in related fields; During more than 25 years formed a generation of scientists aerospace dynamics and engineers qualified to accept the challenge of space; experience gained during this period has proved extremely useful for connecting Fly Romanian researchers in European and global in space.
After 1990, the Romanian coordination of space activities and their connection stronger European and international aerospace dynamics space programs, was established "Romanian Space Agency (ROSA)". First "Agreement between the Romanian Government and the European Space Agency (ESA) on space cooperation for peaceful purposes" was signed in Paris on December 11, 1992 and ratified by Law No. 40/1993. In 1999, Bucharest was signed on a new Association aerospace dynamics Agreement with the European Space Agency for a period of five years. These agreements create the possibility that space activities Romanian connection to the scientific programs of the European aerospace dynamics Community. In 2000 was signed the first cooperation agreement between the Government of Romania - Romanian Space Agency and NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). In February 2006, signed Romania joined the "European Countries Collaborating Programme (Programme for European Cooperating States - PECS)" of the ESA agreement was formalized by Law no. 1 of January 9, 2007 for the ratification of the European cooperative cooperation between the Romanian state and the European Space Agency, signed on 17 February 2006 In 2007 was signed the Charter including the first projects selected to be funded aerospace dynamics by ESA PECS and In February 2011, Romania signed the "Agreement on the Accession to the Convention ESA", which means that, after ratification, aerospace dynamics Romania is ESA Member State. The current Space Science aerospace dynamics Institute was established in 1990 in fact, his rădpcinile extend practically to the establishment Ins