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On Saturday, October 2, 12 students from the Pierre Paul Riquet (LPRR) high school in Saint-Orens, which has earned the “Space High School” label, will communicate for around ten minutes with Thomas Pesquet, the European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut, from the Cité de l’espace. This live radio link is organized by the amateur radio association, […]

On August 17th, 1996, Claudie Haigneré (then André-Deshays) left the Earth to join the Mir station. She was the first French woman to participate in a manned space flight. Her mission lasted 15 days, 18 hours and 23 minutes at the Russian station where she conducted scientific experiments. During this stay, she accepted, live, the […]

From October 20th to 24th, the Cité de l’espace is honouring Copernicus, the most ambitious European Earth Observation program in the world! Businesses, school children and the general public are invited to learn about the program and to reflect on the main environmental challenges of the future. Organized within the framework of the Caroline Herschel […]

On Tuesday June 15th, the Cité de l’espace had the pleasure of hosting an evening organized by Friends of the Cité de l’espace (AACE). The association, which was not able to organize its Grand Prize 2020 owing to the sanitary crisis last December, was finally able to do so on the occasion of this evening. […]

Club GALAXIE, whose head office is at the Cité de l’espace, celebrated its 20th anniversary there  on July under the patronage of Bruno Le Maire, the Minister of the Economy, Finance and the Recovery. It was a morning rich in symbols for the club which since its creation has become a leading organization both in […]

On June 28th, Semeccel welcomed the President of the national board of scientific culture, Mrs Fanette Charvier to the Cité de l’espace along with a delegation of parliamentarians from the commission of cultural affairs and education of the national Assembly. The aim of the meeting: within the framework of a visit to Toulouse, a major […]

Within the framework of La Saison Africa2020, the Cité de l’espace welcomes in residence Caroline Gueye, the French-Togolese-Senegalese astrophysicist and visual artist, who will be working on the theme of space and the future till June 26th. The restitution of her work will take place in public on Saturday, June 26th at the Cité de […]

On Thursday May 6, 2021, Jean-Claude Dardelet, Vice-President of Toulouse Métropole and President of the Cité de l’espace and Jean Baptiste Desbois, Director General of the Cité de l’espace, welcomed for the first time, Philippe Baptiste, recently appointed President and CEO of the Centre National d’Études Spatiales or the National Space Research Center (CNES). The […]