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Emily Carney traces the path from ESRO to Rosetta in her article for Ars Technica, Space for Europe and for all humankind: A brief history of the ESA.
How did the ESA develop into an organization with an impressive track record in deep-space exploration, its own dedicated launcher, and a longstanding human spaceflight program? The short and somewhat unexpected answer simply has a lot to do with particle physics, but the longer answer takes us back more than 50 years.

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