What is ESA?

Question

This is a question for Americans... do you know what is ESA?

Usually Americans are completely ignorant to anything that is outside their lovely haven the call USA. So to give you a hist ESA has something to do with Astronomy & Space (dah!)

Answer 1

ESA is European Space Agency
It is a combined effort of countries of europe for space exploration
This way the different countries can help each other in exploring space and can also be cost saving.

Answer 2

The European Space Agency (ESA), established in 1975, has17 member states. Its headquarters are in Paris, France.ESA has constructed rockets for unmanned scientific and commercial payloads. Ariane 1, launched in 1979, brought mostly-commercial payloads into orbit from 1984 onward. The next two developments of the Ariane rocket were intermediate stages in the development of a more advanced launch system, the Ariane 4, which operated between 1988 and 2003 and did establish ESA as the world leader in commercial space launches in the 1990s. Its successor, the Ariane 5 rocket, has established itself within the heavily competitive commercial space launch market since its first successful flight in 1997 and prospectively will reach 25 successful launches by 2006.
The beginning of the new millennium saw ESA become, along with agencies like NASA, JAXA, and Roscosmos, one of the major participants in scientific space research.
ESA's fleet will soon consist of three major rocket designs, Ariane 5, Soyuz and Vega.
ESA is taking part in the construction and operation of the ISS with contributions such as the Columbus orbital facility, a science laboratory module that will be brought into orbit after NASA's Space Shuttle goes back into service or the Cupola observatory module that was completed in July 2005 by Alenia Spazio for ESA.

Answer 3

ESA is short for:
Meaning Category
Eastern States Agency Business->Firms
Eastern Surfing Association Community->Sports
Economics Student Association Academic & Science->Universities
Economics and Statistics Administration Academic & Science->Ocean Science
Educational Staff Associate Business->Positions
Efta Surveillance Authority Governmental->US Government
Ejercito Secreto Anti-comunista International->Guatemalan
Ejército Secreto Anticomunista International->Spanish
Election Sensitive Area Governmental->US Government
Electronic Secretarial Administrator Computing->Software
Electronic Secretarial Assistant Business->General
Electronic Shift Assist Governmental->Transportation
Electronic Shop Assistance Governmental->Military
Elite Soldiers Alliance Governmental->Military
Employee Security Amendment Business->Positions
Employment Standards Administration Governmental->US Government
Endangered Species Act Academic & Science->Ocean Science
Energy Savings Agreement Business->General
Enfringed Sovereignty Act Business->International Business
Enhanced Subscriber Authentication Computing->Telecom
Enterprise Service Automation Computing->Networking
Enterprise Solutions Architecture Computing->Networking
Enterprise System Architecture Computing->Networking
Enterprise Systems Architecture Computing->Networking
Entomological Society of America Medical->Veterinary
Erythropoiesis Stimulating Agent Medical->Physiology
Esa'ala, Papua New Guinea Regional->Airport Codes
Ethics Standards And Accreditation Academic & Science->Universities
Ethnographic Survey of Africa Regional->African
Etienne Saint Amant Community->Religion
European Space Agency Academic & Science->Ocean Science
Community->Media
Governmental->NASA
European Students Association Academic & Science->Universities
European System Of Accounts Business->International Business
Extended Service Area Computing->General
Extended Stay America, Inc. Business->NYSE Symbols


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Answer 4

Enterprise Standard Architecture

Answer 5

European Space Agency, of course!

... and yes, I knew that without looking it up, but here's a link anyway. Just because I like links.