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On This Day in Space! Dec. 19, 1961: France creates a space agency Space 19/12/2020 On Dec. 19, 1961, France's space agency was born!  After more than a decade of experimenting with rockets and missiles under the country's department of defense, President Charles de Gaulle finally decided that France needed an official governmental space research and signed the creation of the Centre National d' Etudes Spatiales, which in English is the National Center for Space Studies. De Gaulle established the agency to coordinate French space activities like rocket launches and astronaut training -- an...

On This Day in Space! Dec. 15, 1612: Andromeda galaxy spotted by telescope for the 1st time Space 12/15/2020 Hanneke Weitering © Provided by Space The arms and core of the Andromeda Galaxy glow among a sea of multicolored stars in this deep-space photo captured from the Cumeada Observatory at the Dark Sky Alqueva Reserve in Reguengos de Monsaraz, Portugal. On Dec. 15, 1612, the Andromeda galaxy was seen through a telescope for the first time by a German astronomer named Simon Marius.  The Andromeda galaxy (also known as M31) is the closest major galaxy to our own Milky W...