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ESA is celebrating its 50th anniversary!

For half a century, the European Space Agency (ESA) has been serving Europe as its space agency and inspiring its citizens. On 30 May 1975, the ESA Convention was signed by 10 States and has since now expanded to 23 Member States, two Associate Members and one Cooperating State. This anniversary year provides the opportunity to reflect not only on ESA’s past achievements, but even more so on its future perspectives.

50 years of ESA
Members of Expedition 60 pose with their Soyuz launcher
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Europe celebrates a launch and a landing

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Aldrin setting up the Solar Wind Composition Experiment
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First 'flag' on the Moon?

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Apollo 11 crew
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On this day: 50 years ago

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Pat Norris
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Europeans in Apollo: 'The pathfinder'

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Fly me to the Moon poster
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'Fly me to the Moon': marking the 50th anniversary of the f…

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Apollo 11 laser experiment installation - Keith Wright
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Europeans in Apollo: The Wright Stuff

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Peter Creola
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Peter Creola, 1940-2019

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COPERS meeting 1960
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A digital record of the European space pioneers

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A virtually cloud-free Europe captured by MSG
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ESA Historical Archives go digital

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Harry Atkinson
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Dr Harry Atkinson, 1929-2018

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Artemis FM testing in ESTEC
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ESA’s 25 years of telecom: marking a milestone

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Ariane 5 V243 100th launch - 2
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Ariane 5: the story behind the 100 launches...

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ESRIN inauguration
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ESA celebrates 50 years of ESRIN

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Sigmund Jähn
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Sigmund Jähn: the first German in space

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John Young and Ulf Merbold
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Ulf Merbold: remembering John Young (1930-2018)

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ESA DG at Unispace50
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Fifty years of UNISPACE

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Per Tegnér
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Per Tegnér, 1944-2018

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Walter Thiebaut, 1945-2018

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ESTEC 50th anniversary event
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ESA celebrates 50 years of ESTEC

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Veronique launch, 9 April 1968
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CSG at 50: half a century of Europe's Spaceport

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ESTEC today
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ESTEC looking to the next decades…

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Princess Beatrix at the inauguration of ESTEC 1968
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Fifty years of ESTEC, the heart of Europe's space research

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ESTEC 50 brochure cover
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ESA BR-339 Place for Space

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Stephen Hawking in weightlessness
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Stephen Hawking, 1942-2018

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Jean Pierre Causse
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Jean-Pierre Causse, 1926-2018

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Mateusz Morawiecki, Deputy Prime Minister of Poland
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Marking five years of Poland in ESA

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Meteosat-1 launch
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Forty years of Meteosat

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Aurora artist view
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Latest Space Conference programme now online

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Launch of Cassini-Huygens
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Anniversary of the launch of Cassini-Huygens

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Sputnik launch
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Sputnik – 60 years of the space age

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Cassini grand finale
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Cassini concludes pioneering mission at Saturn

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ESOC control room 1969
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Happy birthday ESOC

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Aurora artist view
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Appel a contributions : Projet histoire de l'ESA

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ESA Bulletin 7 (Nov. 1976)
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50 years of ESOC: Treasures from the archives

10/07/2017 1158 views 4 likes
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Aurora artist view
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Call for contributions: ESA History Project (deadline exten…

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ESOC50 logo horizontal
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Long Night of the Stars to celebrate ESOC's 50th birthday

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ESRO-2B on launcher
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First ESRO satellite in space

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Bul 165-168 cover
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ESA Bulletin 165-168 2016

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Jogn Glenn
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John Glenn (1921-2016): tribute from ESA astronaut Pedro Du…

16/12/2016 2125 views 4 likes
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Gabriel Lafferranderie
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Gabriel Lafferranderie, 1941-2016

16/12/2016 1065 views 5 likes
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Maxus sounding rocket launch
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Fifty years of Esrange

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Bul 164 cover
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ESA Bulletin 164 (4th quarter) 2015

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Astronaut Umberto Guidoni
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15 years of Europe on the International Space Station

19/04/2016 3693 views 17 likes
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Giotto's children: where are they now?

11/03/2016 5114 views 55 likes
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Thomas Reiter spacewalk
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EVA: a chronology of Europeans walking in space

06/01/2016 6904 views 19 likes
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Bulletin 163 cover
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ESA Bulletin 163 (3rd quarter) 2015

09/12/2015 5241 views 9 likes
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SOHO
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SOHO celebrates 20 years of discoveries

02/12/2015 11789 views 87 likes
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Princess Beatrix at HAEU
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Royal visit for ESA history archive

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Bulletin 162 cover
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ESA Bulletin 162 (2nd quarter 2015)

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Guests and speakers at the ‘ŰR-LÉPTÉK’ conference
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The beginning of Hungarian manned spaceflight

03/06/2015 2771 views 5 likes
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