Comisión Nacional de Investigación del Espacio, Spanish National Commission for Space Research, existed from 1963 to 1986.

Cooperation Agreements with ESA provide a common basis and the appropriate operational arrangements for efficient and mutually beneficial cooperation in space activities for peaceful purposes, on a no-exchange-of-funds basis.

European Preparatory Commission for Space Research, created to prepare for the establishment of an international organisation to plan and implement common European space programmes. It operated from 1961 to 1964, when ESA’s predecessors, ESRO and ELDO, were created.

Committee on space research which developed from the work of the International Geophysical Year

Centre Spatial Guyanais, Guiana Space Centre, Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. The site in Kourou was chosen by the CNES, the French space agency for the creation of a launch pad in 1964

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, German Research Foundation

Deutsche Versuchsanstalt für Luft- und Raumfahrt, later Deutsche Versuchsanstalt für Luft- und Raumfahrt, German Aeropsace Centre

The European Astronaut Centre (EAC) was established in 1990 and is located in Cologne, Germany. Home to ESA’s astronaut corps, it is the European centre of excellence for astronaut selection, training, and support.

In March 1998, the ESA Council approved a proposal to set up a unified European Astronaut Corps by merging existing national astronaut programmes with the ESA programme. This integration process was completed in 2002.

European Broadcasting Union, an alliance of public service media organisations created in 1950