Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales
Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE; in English, National Space Activities Commission) is the civilian agency of the government of Argentina in charge of the national space program.
History
Sociedad Argentina Interplanetaria
During the 1940s Teofilo Tabanera organized a group of foreign and Argentine specialists as the Sociedad Argentina Interplanetaria, SAI (Argentine Interplanetary Society). Tabanera's efforts ensured that Argentina was the first Latin American nation to create a spaceflight organization and in 1952 was one of the founding members of the International Astronautical Federation. Argentinean Aldo Cocca was a pioneer in space law and helped originate the idea of space being the common heritage of humankind, later enshrined in United Nations treaties of the 1960s.
Comision Nacional de Investigaciones Espaciales
In 1960 Tabanera was named head of the newly created Comision Nacional de Investigaciones Espaciales CNIE (Spanish: Comisión Nacional de Investigaciones Espaciales), a forerunner agency founded in 1960.
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