Hello, youtubers. Welcome to my show Rocket Monday. Today we're going to take a look at European Space Agency. So let's dive right into it. One thing you have to understand, this whole space race began after World War 2. So, in World War 2, a Cold War began basically, Soviet Union and America went head to head on the race of space. So, Eastern European scientists realized any nation that is exists in entirety of European Union can single handedly cannot able to compete with America or Soviet Union. So, they had it to come together and European Space Agency as we know it today was established in 30 May 1975. And you have to understand, they are not a military organizer. They want to compete in space, they want to compete for powerful reasons, but they are not a military organization. This many things blue things you are seeing, they are countries that take part in European Space Agency. However, not every country that is in European Space is a paste the same amount of money. As you can see, Germany pays roughly 23% of the entirety of the budget, France pays 22.6%, Italy pays 13.7%, United Kingdom 8.7%. However, you have to be mindful each of these country itself has a space agency in them. However, they are not completely independent organized, they are like subsidiary, like they do their thing in their country and then things are exported or like you know, scientists, data, knowledge, whatever exported to European Space Agency. So, if you look into these countries, their own space agency, it might not be that good or they may not even have launch vehicle capabilities. So, this is why it was created. So, what do they do? They have human space flight program. Basically, they are successfully capable of sending humans to space. They have a large astronaut program which have a lot of astronauts coming from entirety of Europe. But suffice to say they do not have any manned vehicle. Basically, they cannot send their astronaut, like Russia can send their own astronauts using their own spacecraft. America can do that using their own spacecraft. Used to able to since shuttle is retired now and SLS is not ready. And China can do that. However, they are not part of the international space treaty. So, they are not allowed to go into ISS. And they have paid a very, very crucial role in international space. Not only with funding, also to you know, calm down the situation and don't start another second world war or cold war. So, as you can see, ISA supported the very big module known as Columbus. And suffice to say ISA not only just pay for NASA's projects, they also contribute in terms of research, development and manufacturing. So, they are not just like you know, okay, they are paying the money. They are also paying the resources and technical expertise. So, suffice to say they are quite crucial for international space agency. And not to mention they also send astronauts. So, they get like in space shuttle days, they used to get four seats reserved from ISA to decide whoever goes on that. So, ISA and NASA, they almost sound the same. And they are both western. So, suffice to say you might want to compare it to NASA. So, let's look into it. It is half the budget. So, even though that many countries are pouring their money into it, they are not very financially strong. Because in this year, NASA's budget is around 20 billion dollar. ISA although they provide their information in euros, it is roughly 8 to 7 billion euros. So, suffice to say you can easily assume it is 10 billion dollars. So, it is half of the NASA's budget. Now, the biggest problem right now is that they do not have any romantic craft. Now, this is very crucial. And their staff capability like if you go to ISA's website and how many people work in it, you will only find 2000 people. You go to NASA's and they have employed roughly 17,000 people. So, suffice to say NASA is much bigger organization. And ISA's biggest prime workhorse is Aryan 5, this rocket. This is a heavy lift rocket. It has almost the same capability of Falcon 9. Only difference is it is four times more expensive. And ISA works very closely with NASA. And because ISA does not have any there of band program, they are working with NASA to develop the Orion project. So, they are here again, they are doing the same thing. They are developing R&D processes. And basically, they are not building their own thing. They are just helping NASA to build it faster. So, suffice to say the deeper idea into ISA, I was not that happy given the fact that they are space organization. They are funded by that many countries. They are not doing something that I could consider like holy crap. This is awesome. Even Japanese space agency has a more better price to performance ratio. And ISA is my side of this and on one tenth of the budget. So, suffice to say that is why this presentation is very small. I couldn't find anything that was like amazing about them. They are good space organization, but they are not very fulfilling. Given the fact that they have 10 billion dollar budget. So, this was my presentation of ISA. I hope you guys liked it or learned from it. In that case, please like, subscribe. I make video every day and leave a comment. Press the bell icon to be notified of my progress. And as always, thanks for watching.