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Air France, a story of elegance. Since February 12th, 2025, L’Envol des Pionniers will showcase Air France through a temporary exhibition which gives visitors a unique opportunity to discover how over the years the French company has imagined the experience of travel right down to the last detail, celebrating the French art of living to […]

From China... On December 5th, the Cité de l’espace hosted a delegation from the Chinese space field led by Mr. Bian Zhigang, vice-administrator of the Chinese space agency, the CNSA. This visit was planned as part of a meeting organized by the CNES. Discussions dealt with French-Chinese collaboration and future moon and Mars exploration, in […]

On December 9th, the Association des Amis de la Cité de l’espace (AACE) held its annual awards ceremony attended by an audience of 160 people. The Georges Estibal Grand Prize was awarded to François Forget, a renowned Astro physician, in honour of his career achievements. Mr. Forget gave a fascinating talk for the conclusion of […]

On December 11th, over 100 pupils, accompanied by their teachers, gathered at L’Envol des Pionniers to present the progress they have made on the Laté 28 educational project. The aim of this ambitious program is to reproduce, on the scale of 1, a non-flying replica of the Laté 28, the emblematic plane of which 50 […]

On November 4th, the Cité de l’espace hosted the 16th edition of Prix Galaxie, organized by Club Galaxie. This award, which every year is given to innovative space companies in the Occitanie Region, showcases technological projects, products, services and applications from the space sector or which use space data. The 2024 Prix Galaxie was awarded […]

November marked the kick-off of the major annual educational projects organized by the Cité de l’espace and L’Envol des Pionniers including the Children’s Scientific Congress, the Martian Robot Challenge (both of which have earned the ESERO accreditation) and In the footsteps of Saint Exupéry. Throughout the month, training courses are available to teachers who will […]

A new milestone has just been reached for the Laté28 project at L’Envol des Pionniers, which plans to build a non-flying life-sized replica of the legendary Laté28, considered by many to be the first modern passenger aircraft. On Monday October 21st, seven students from the Mechanical Engineering and Production IUT program at Paul Sabatier III […]

For the 2024 edition of Journées Européennes du Patrimoine (European Cultural Heritage Days), L’Envol des Pionniers will donn the colours of Latin America. Several thousand visitors are expected to discover the places and take part in the special activities of this free weekend of September 21 and 22. The program includes readings of the correspondence […]