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  • The conquest of space
    • Timeline
    • Focus on special dates
  • What is a launcher?
    • Space rocket? Do you mean launcher?
    • Gravity – it gets you down!
    • Launch, OK, but where?
  • How does a launcher work?
    • Rockets are heavy because their engines are so big, right?
    • Did you say nozzle?
    • So how many stages are there?
  • Which launcher please?
    • Dreams of rockets
    • The first rockets
    • Ever more powerful
    • The Ariane saga
    • Why not have a space aeroplane?
    • Animated comparison of different launchers
  • What is a satellite?
    • Our guardian angels the satellites
    • Watch out for falling objects!
    • To orbit or not to orbit
    • A probe, is that a satellite?
    • A machine for communicating
  • How does a satellite work?
    • A strange insect
    • Plugged into the sun
    • Do satellites need steering?
    • Attention traffic jams!
  • What are satellites for?
    • Communication satellites
    • Earth observation satellites
    • Navigation and positioning satellites
    • Observers of the unknown
  • Space exploration
    • Bepi Colombo
    • HERSCHEL
  • Humans in space
    • Daily life in space
    • Space missions
  • The International Space Station
    • An incredible adventure for humankind
    • Key ISS dates
    • What is the ISS for?
    • Animation: the assembly of the ISS
  • Europe and the ISS
    • Europe on the ISS
    • ATVs or Automated Transfer Vehicles
    • How do ATVs work?
    • Columbus, the European space laboratory
    • Columbus’ bumpers
    • ATV Missions
    • Columbus, helping you keep your head
• Space job
  • The professions
    • Astrophysicist
    • Astronaut
  • Professionals tell their stories…
    • Catherine Cesarsky, astrophysicist
    • Jean-Francois Clervoy, astronaut
    • Anette Bade, astronaut instructor
    • Mercedes Sierra Torral, director of Spanish space programmes
    • Xavier Vanwijck, aerospace research engineer
    • Pierre Leseur, technician
    • Christophe Bonnal, Specialist in launchers
    • Amaya ESPINOSA RAMOS, Specialist in laucher trajectories and performance
    • Cristian Bank, project manager for crewed flight
• From space for the Earth
  • How space helps us
    • Satellites everywhere
    • Today’s inventions
    • Tomorrow’s brainwaves
    • Medicine transformed by space
  • Helping the environment
    • Space in tune with Earth
    • Animals seen from the sky
    • Space and agriculture
• Space in science-fiction
  • SF space fantasies
    • THE ROBOTS: the cult book that invented Robotics
    • I, ROBOT: The film that made machines dream
  • Robots and nanorobots
    • Robots with or against man
    • Space robots, calculating and intelligent
    • Robots, the new explorers
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  • Animated comparison of different launchers
  • The assembly of the ISS
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