Our space roots

Space is more than a destination for HE Space, it's destiny.

Scott Millican and Neil Armstrong

Our experience in space is deeply rooted in our first hand experience - from putting a man on the moon to participating in some of Europe’s biggest space projects.

Unforgettable, 1969: “One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind”. Almost everyone on Earth knows the famous words spoken by Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon.

Only insiders, however, know that he shared his triumph with Scott Millican, the trainer who helped prepare the Apollo 11 crew to make John F. Kennedy's visionary dream come true.

We make astronauts


In 1969, HE Space founder Scott Millican developed the Procedures Handbook that would help take Apollo Missions from 11 to 17 to the moon and safely back to Earth.

In 1983 it was the training from HE Space - the company created by Scott Millican and Mike Hernandez - that took Ulf Merbold, the first German astronaut, on his adventure with the NASA space shuttle into orbit and back. 
 

Procedures Handbook
Former HE Space Employee and now ESA Astronaut Andreas Mogensen

In 2015 it was the former HE Space engineer Andreas Mogensen, the first Danish astronaut who flew to the International Space Station as part of the IRISS mission. 
 

Through all the major periods of human space flight HE Space has evolved to become one of the leading companies of space experts in the world. 

January 2023 marked the beginning of a new chapter for HE Space as Scott Millican retired and sold the company to CS GROUP. 

HE Space is headquartered in Noordwijk, The Netherlands. As partners in excellence with CS GROUP and Sopra Steria together we form SpaceForce and have offices and representations in France, Germany, the Netherlands, the UK and Romania. As one may expect, our special mission guides the company from success to success.

Link to SpaceForce Brochure

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