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From  November 18th to 25th Educ Tour was at the Cité de l’espace and L’Envol des Pionniers. Mediation teams from both sites presented their program of “Metropolitan actions” for 2022” to the towns in Toulouse Métropole. Every year cultural programs are selected by the towns within the framework of a scheme overseen by Toulouse Métropole. […]

On November 24th, teachers from nine classes from the Academy of Toulouse were introduced to the details of the educational project, Dans les pas de Saint Exupéry for which they volunteered and received educational kits. Since 2021, L’Envol des Pionniers has given several classes from the Academy of Toulouse the opportunity to study an episode […]

On Tuesday November 30th, Jean-Claude Dardelet, Vice-president of Toulouse Métropole, president of the Semeccel, and Jean Baptiste Desbois, CEO of the Semeccel, welcomed to the Cité de l’espace, Matt Koeppe, the new representative of NASA for Europe (on the left in the picture) who arrived this summer, Merry Walker, scientific attaché of the United States […]

Several events took place this fall at L'Envol des Pionniers, with one thing in common: honoring the memory of the pioneers of the aeropostale. Honouring the pioneers of the aeropostale On October 11th, Jean-Luc Moudenc, the mayor of Toulouse and the president of Toulouse Métropole, accompanied by Emilion Esnault, district mayor, and Pierre-Michel Pranville, the […]

On November 20th, the Astronautes exhibition, imagined and designed by the Cité de l’espace with support from the ESA, will be in the heart of the Cosmonautics museum of Samara (Russia). The presentation of this new version produced within the scope of the ECSITE Space Group, the network of science museums in Europe, marks a […]

The Semeccel participated on October 12-14 in the 2021 national congress of the Federation of local public Companies (Epl) which this year took place at MEETT Toulouse. This year’s congress was on “Innovating, investing, reinventing with Epl” with the clear objective of showing how Epls can be genuine drivers for recovery. Jean Baptiste Desbois, CEO […]

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 […]