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.
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French President Jacques Chirac, left, chats with British architect Lord Norman Foster during the inauguration of the Millau brige, southern France, Tuesday Dec.14, 2004. Now that it is open, it enables motorists to take a drive through the sky , 270 meters (891 feet) above the Tarn River valley for a 2.5 kilometer (1.6 mile) stretch through France's Massif Central mountains. Lord Foster designed the bridge.