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High-level representatives from 41 countries, including the 29 ESA and EU states, are invited on 10 November for the Third International Conference on Space Exploration, and the first High-level International Space Exploration Platform.
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.
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.