CentralNotice List of government space agencies From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from List of space agencies ) Jump to: navigation , search Russian Space Station Mir , back-dropped against the Earth, taken from the NASA 's Space Shuttle Atlantis following undocking from the station at the end of STS-71 on the 4th of July, 1995. On the 29th of June, 1995, STS-71 became the first Shuttle mission ever to dock with the station. This is a list of government agencies engaged in activities related to outer space and space exploration . The name given is the English version, with the native language version below. The acronym given is the most common acronym: this can either be the acronym of the English version (e.g. JAXA ), or the acronym in the native language. Where there are multiple acronyms in common use, the English one is given first. The date o...