New Members of ESA, 1985: On 12 December 1985 at ESA Headquarters in Paris, Heinz Fischer, the Austrian Federal Minister of Science and Research, and Petter Thomassen, the Norwegian Minister of Industry, signed the association agreements that would take their countries into full membership of ESA on 1 January 1987. Delegation and ESA officials, including Chairman of the ESA Council Harry Atkinson, look on.