The European Space Agency (ESA) is Europe’s gateway to space. Its mission is to shape the development of Europe’s space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world.
Find out more about space activities in our 23 Member States, and understand how ESA works together with their national agencies, institutions and organisations.
Exploring our Solar System and unlocking the secrets of the Universe
Go to topicProtecting life and infrastructure on Earth and in orbit
Go to topicUsing space to benefit citizens and meet future challenges on Earth
Go to topicMaking space accessible and developing the technologies for the future
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The European Space Agency is committed to encourage the youth of Europe to actively prepare and participate in, the building of their future through a better knowledge of space technology and sciences, with the aim of ensuring an appropriately skilled workforce into the 21st century.
For this reason, ESA Education Office organizes the Student Parabolic Flight Campaign on an annual basis. Indeed, the next best thing to being in space is being in weightlessness in a specially designed aeroplane, the Airbus A300 Zero-G. It is therefore a great pleasure for the Education Office to give students an opportunity that will no doubt change their lives