On Dec. 19, 1961, France's space agency was born! Discover more space history 👉 https://trib.al/ZcMQa2f After more than a decade of experimenting with rockets and missiles under the country's department of defense, President Charles de Gaulle finally decided that France needed an official governmental space research and signed the creation of the Centre National d' Etudes Spatiales, which in English is the National Center for Space Studies. De Gaulle established the agency to coordinate French

On May 30, 1975, the European Space Agency officially opened for business. Learn more about this moment in space history👉 https://space-com.visitlink.me/Mhy0Pg The European Space Agency was created as a merger of the European Launcher Development Organization, or ELDO, and the European Space Research Organisation, ESRO. Both ELDO and ESRO were established in the 1960s to unify the space-related activities of European nations. After World War II, a lot of European rocket scientists left to work

Live HD Earth viewing from the International Space Station! Go full screen, sit back, watch and enjoy our home planet. Live views: http://go.nasa.gov/2oBrDS2 | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration