Space Mission

Take off into the latest permanent exhibition at The Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie dedicated to space exploration! Step into the shoes of an astronaut and live out an extraordinary experience during your visit. An adventure that will make you discover the reality as well as the complexity of space missions. 

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The exhibition

Trailer of the exhibition Space Mission (1'02)

The Space Mission exhibition invites you on a journey through time and space. It reveals the opportunities that space offers as well as its limits.
The exhibition gives you an overview on research, technologies and it reflects on space missions. The visit is divided in five sections.
 

Practical informations

  • €15 | €12 | Our prices

  • From age 8

  • Trilingual exhibition (French, English, Spanish)

  • The Cité is open from Tuesday to Saturday 10.00 am - 6.00 pm and 10.00 am - 7.00 pm on Sunday.

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Small pushchairs are allowed inside the museum. This exhibition area can be accessed by lift.

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  • Explore

    Human and robotic space exploration go hand in hand.

    In this first section, the visitor discovers objects that manage to go where no human can go, due to safety of time reasons. Probes and rovers collect images and sounds, analyse atmospheres or rock samples. They help prepare future human travels.

  • Travel

    Embark on a drilling mission on Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, located hundreds of millions of kilometres from Earth. Thanks to this immersive show, experience a space expedition from lift-off to landing. From discovering launchers to choosing propulsion modes and calculating trajectories, the reality is very different from science fiction films!

  • Gateway to space

    Do you know Artemis? At the end of 2022, this programme successfully sent the Orion spacecraft thanks to the SLS (Space Launch System). Orion completed its first uncrewed journey around the Moon, opening the way for a future crewed mission.

    Discover a replica of Orion and another of I-HAB, the European habitat module for the Lunar Gateway space station.

     

  • Living in space

    In this section, visitors travel into the future; they set foot on the Moon and wander through an established base. How can one live autonomously using the resources found here and recycling as much as possible? What are the architectural solutions to adapt to the challenges of the Moon? Thanks to a multimedia game, become and astronaut preparing to live one day on Mars.

  • Food for thought

    Take a step back.

    Let the experts talk. Astrophysicist, sociologist, or geopolitical analysist. An audio-visual devise presents a reflection on our society’s relationship with space, particularly the reason behind sending humans into space.

    In this final section, you may also catch up on the latest news on this topic.