December 23, 2024

On This Day in Space! Dec. 19, 1961: France creates a space agency

After more than a decade of exploring with rockets and missiles under the nations department of defense, President Charles de Gaulle lastly chose that France needed an official governmental area research study and signed the creation of the Centre National d Etudes Spatiales, which in English is the National Center for Space Studies.The French Space Agency CNES structure at the 2013 Paris Air Show. Still not adequate space?