The Hellenic Space Center and the Ministry of Digital Governance and Artificial Intelligence have opened a public call for the name of Greece’s first mission to the International Space Station. ESA astronaut Adrianos Golemis is scheduled to spend about two weeks there in the summer of 2027, running scientific experiments. The call is dated 21 October. It is not a launch already flown and not a name already chosen.

Kathimerini, on an AMNA wire, writes that a mission name is a sign: it can reflect the scientific aims, the astronaut’s personality, Greece’s cultural heritage or the values the mission wants to show. In a video on the centre’s accounts, Golemis said the name should carry Greek cultural identity, research and exploration, and international cooperation.

Proposals must be short, easy to remember and easy to say in both Greek and English. They should speak to a wide audience, especially younger people in Greece and across Europe. Personal names are out, except mythological figures whose symbolism is widely recognised. The deadline is 30 October.

Golemis is a doctor and amateur astronomer, is drawn to the sea and spent a year in Antarctica. Kathimerini gives that as a portrait, not as proof the mission has begun. The centre says research institutes, universities, companies and experts in Greece and across Europe are behind the experiments and the preparation. That is announced teamwork, not a flight already under way.

in.gr confirms the same 30 October 2026 deadline and the same naming rules. From earlier reporting it adds that Golemis is an ESA reserve astronaut and that the commercial PAM-6 flight has been presented as the path to the ISS. That is calendar context, not today’s news: today a name is being asked for, not a takeoff.

The mission is described as a step in Greece’s part in human spaceflight. Until a name is chosen and a launch date is kept, the closed fact is the call: proposals by 30 October, no personal names outside mythology, for a stay of about two weeks planned for summer 2027.

Image: NASA / Johnson Space Center, view of Greece from the ISS (Expedition 75), 22 August 2026, public domain, Wikimedia Commons; a 2026 Earth view, not a photograph of Golemis 2027 flight.

Sources consulted: Greece invites public to name its first astronaut mission to the International Space Station - Kathimerini; How will the first Greek astronaut mission be named - in.gr.