The ESRIN site in 1970
During construction in 1970
The ceremony to lay the cornerstone of the new ESRIN site took place on 27 September 1968. Addresses were given by Prof. Hendrick C. van de Hulst, Chairman of ESRO Council, Hermann Bondi, ESRO Director General, Hermann Jordan, the Director of ESRIN, and Prof. Mario Pedini, Undersecretary of State for Scientific Research in Italy. A blessing was given by the Archbishop of Frascati and a Latin-inscribed scroll was sealed inside the cornerstone.
This weekend in 1968, 27 September, ESA's centre for Earth Observation #ESRIN was founded at Frascati, near Rome. The photographs shows ESRIN under construction in 1970 and the foundation ceremony.
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