From left to right: Jioi Zak, Deputy MInister for Transport, Czech Republic, Antonio Tajani, Vice-President of the European Commission, Giuseppe Pizza, Secretary of State, Ministry of Education, Universities and Research, Italy, Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA Director General, Jialin Cao, Minister of Science Technology, China.
Discussions will focus on space exploration when ministers and heads of agencies of most of the world’s space-faring countries rendezvous on Thursday in Lucca, Italy.
High-level representatives from 41 countries, including the 29 ESA and EU states, are invited on 10 November for the Third International Conference on Exploration and the first High-level International Space Exploration Platform.
The participants will build on the debate begun on a European level in Prague in 2009 and continued in Brussels last year during the first dedicated conferences.