European Space Conference: : [Fonds], 1966-1975

Resource Information

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Label

European Space Conference: : [Fonds], 1966-1975

Title remainder

[Fonds]

Inclusive dates

1966-1975

Creator

• European Space Conference

Contributor

• European Space Conference, Committee of Alternates
• European Space Conference, Committee of Senior Officials

Subject

• European Space Agency -- History -- Sources
• European space programmes
• Microfiches
• Astronautics and state -- Europe -- History -- Sources

Genre

• Microfiches
• Sources

Language

• eng
• fre
• eng
• eng

Summary

The core of the fonds is a master copy of official issues including the documents produced by the Ministerial Conferences and by various ad hoc entities: the Committee of Senior Officials with responsibility for studying a basic European space programme, the Committee of Alternates supporting the Ministerial Conferences in preparing the schemes for the new European Space Agency, the Secreatariat as an intermediate board composed by the heads of legal departments of ESRO and ELDO and other high officials of the two main organisations. The collection of documents of the Legal Affairs Department provide full details of the articles of the ESA Convention

Biographical or historical data

At the first conference of the "European Launcher Development Organisation" (ELDO) ministers, held on July 1966, the need for close and effective co-ordination of the activities of the two space organisations was voiced which prompted the creation of an "European Space Conference" (ESC), the first of which was held in Paris on 13 December 1966, with the participation of 14 countries. Afterwards, ESC became a permanent body and met at least once a year at ministerial level to work out and ensure the implementation of a co-ordinated European space policy. The ministerial meeting in Brussels on 20 December 1972 finally managed to reach unanimous agreement on all outstanding issues: there should be a single "European Space Agency" which would have the task of integrating national and European space programmes in the future, including the ARIANE launcher and the SPACELAB porgramme. The final agreement was submitted on 15 April 1975 to the final ministerial meeting of the European Space Conference which accepted it.

Cataloging source

IT-FiEUI

Language note

Fonds in English, French, and German. Inventory in English