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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 […]

Even 100% digital, the Children’s Scientific Congress in 2021 was somewhat intimidating with its real scientific congress decorum. On June 3, more than twenty classes (Year 6 and 7 pupils) presented their models on the theme, My school on Mars. Following in the footsteps of the astrophysicist Sylvestre Maurice from IRAP in 2020, this event […]

In spite of its closure, the Cité de l’espace has continued its mediation mission to reach the general public. In particular it has developed opportunities to welcome different media organizations at the main space events in order to broadcast news to the widest public. For example, France Info relocated its branch to the site on […]

The Cité de l’espace has been collaborating for two years with CNRS within the framework of a project to renovate the Space Museum affiliated with the Guyanese space center in Kourou. In January 2021, the project team including architects and museum designers was selected and can now begin the more operational phase. With this new […]