50 years of achievements in space
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In 2014, the space community is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Europe Space Agency (ESA) . To commemorate this milestone, an event was organized at the Centre international de conférences de Genève (CICG) on Friday September 12th.
On Friday 12th September 2014 ESA commemorated 50 years of European cooperation in space at the Centre International de Conférences de Genève (CICG). This event brought together many of major academic, political and institutional partners from Europe and beyond. Many students from Europe, interested in this promising field were also invited to attend the event and were given the opportunity to interact with professionals from various space-related fields in the form of rounds of speed-dating. The results were later reported to all the participants by a group of selected representatives.
During this day, the latest news and breath-taking images from the ambitious 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko-bound Rosetta mission were shared to the audience as well as other recent scientific highlights. The audience was furthermore given the chance to follow a discussion between high level representatives of some countries' most important national and supra-national organisations (ESA, NASA, Japan's JAXA, the IKI from the Russian Academy of Sciences and the NSSC from the Chinese Academy of Science); mainly on the future of Space and collaborations with Europe. Beyond those more programmatic aspects, important scientific players also recollected major achievements and successes of the European space efforts and projected themselves into the future; before Jean-Jacques Dordain's closing remarks and a well deserved dinner.
