25 years on - ESA's space science still going strong
25 July 1998
ESA was created at the European Space Conference in Brussels in July 1973. To mark the 25th anniversary of this event, ESA has issued a short history "ESA, Looking Forward...Looking Back".It includes a reminiscence by Charles Hanin, the Belgian Minister who chaired the original meeting, and goes on to review ESA's acheivements in space communications, Earth observation, space science, launchers and manned spaceflight.
Last Update: 1 September 2019