A colourful selection of posters and calendars illustrating the past three decades of ESA missions and programmes, and highlighting activities at ESOC, the European Space Operations Centre, Darmstadt, Germany.
This gallery was selected from archives kept at ESOC and from a collection maintained by Klaus Lenhart, who retired from the Centre in 2000 after 37 years.
A poster issued by, we think, the city of Darmstadt in the 1980s, to promote an extended-business-hours shopping week. Not directly related to ESOC, but we couldn't resist including an iconic, if imaginary, image of a launcher superimposed on our host city's central square.
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ESOC
ESOC video
History of Europe in space
50 years of space in pictures
30 years of ESA in pictures
ESA 'birthday card' of Apollo 11 landing site
NASA Apollo 40th anniversary site
