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Jan 2002
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IAF abstracts, 34th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, The Second World Space Congress, held 10-19 October, 2002 in Houston, TX, USA.,
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The French space agency, the Centre national d'études spatiales (C.N.E.S.), which started its activities on March 1, 1962, was born from a strong political will of the French Government to endow the France a unique structure able to propose and develop a consistent national space program and help him to bring the adapted answers to the numerous european and international initiatives. However, if the Cnes foundation marked a major step in the soar of space activities in France, it was not created ex nihilo, but preceded by several initiatives, took first of all in the military field and then in civilian structures. In France, as in other countries, the end of the Second World War has marked an important step in missiles and rockets development studies. But, it was necessary to reach the middle of the fifties to see rockets used as scientific experiments vehicles. This initiative came from the French scientific military services which observed with interest works and experiences pursued by other countries, and especially by the United States. They decided to set up first researches on the high atmosphere, based upon used of the Veronique rockets. With the announce and the progress of the International Geophysicial Year (IGY), first programs was extended, not without difficulties. After the first Soviet and U.S satellites launches, the world space researches became more mediatised and took an obvious political dimension, leading creation of new structures, as COPUOS or COSPAR. These international activities pushed hardly the French political and scientific authorities to take into account the various questions related with space. With this paper we propose to make a short survey of the French initiatives which succeeded, and led in 1962 to the institution of the Cnes.
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