The French space program includes both civil and military spaceflight activities. It is the third oldest national space program in the world, after the Soviet and American space programs, and the largest space program in Europe.
Ariane rocket at Le Bourget airport museum, Paris
Columbus module
French spationaut Thomas Pesquet in 2016
Astronautics is the practice of sending spacecraft beyond Earth's atmosphere into outer space. Spaceflight is one of its main applications and space science is its overarching field.
Hubble Space Telescope over Earth (during the STS-109 mission)