'Snowball' fight after first Ariane launch

A snowball fight – using 'snow' created by moisture condensing around an liquid oxygen purge pipe – after the first Ariane L01 launch at Christmas 1979. Centre, Alexandre Merdrignac (Launch Director) and right, Hubert Curien, President of CNES, at the ELA-1 complex at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.