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.
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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
Go to topicWith the beginning of the academic year 2005/2006 ESA, together with five European Universities, has started a cycle of lectures in astrobiology, which brings together on a virtual campus specialists from ESA and faculties and students from Universities of Turku in Finland, Paris in France, Dresden in Germany, Salzburg in Austria and Milton Keynes in the United Kingdom. The inaugural lecture from the Auditorium of the Erasmus User Centre.