In 1964 the two organizations that would serve as the seed for the foundation were operational, 11 years after the European Space Agency (ESA): the European Space Research Organization (ESRO) and the European Organization for the Development of Shuttles (ELDO). This would lay the foundations for the first Ariane rocket to be launched in 1979, the first great success of a young agency which would later be joined by many others. The landing on a Saturn moon, the next landing on a comet, the mapping of the Universe or obtaining the best measurement ever obtained from the first light of the Universe are some of them.
Currently the ESA is made up of 20 member states, Spain included, and the contribution of each country to the organization is uneven. Of course, all of them are aware, as they explain from the agency itself, that " space is key for our society and for the economy ." In fact, without satellites, for example, there would be no reliable telecommunications or meteorological control systems, no navigation systems, and so on.
