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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Women in Aerospace Europe conference at the ESA Pavilion at the Paris Air Show, Le Bourget, 15 June 2009.
From left to right: Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA Director General, Simonetta Di Pippo, ESA Director of Human Spaceflight, Daryle Lademan, President WIA USA, Michael Griffin, former NASA Administrator, currently eminent scholar/professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, the United States, and Claudia Kessler, Chair WIA Europe & CEO HE Space.