Space Station Utilisation Initiatives of the European Space Agency ESA/ESTEC

The overall strategic objective of ESA's Microgravity Applications Programme (MAP) is to generate a European activity using the International Space Station (ISS) as a facility for applications-oriented research and eventually for industrial R&D in the long-term. Applications of microgravity may be understood as the exploitation of the ISS for applied research and as a testbed for the development of technology and processes useful on Earth and for long-duration space flight.