ATV-5: Georges Lemaître, Monseigneur Big Bang

With ATV-5 George Lemaitre soon to be launched to the ISS from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, ESA pays tribute to George Lemaitre, the Belgian cleric and professor who was the first the conceive the idea of a big bang.

The name of the man who proposed the prevailing« expansion” theory on the beginning of the universe was proposed by Belgium’s delegation to ESA.

This video explains who was Georges Lemaitre and how he contributed to modern Cosmology.