United Earth Space Probe Agency

The United Earth Space Probe Agency (often UESPA) was a space exploration and scientific research organization, based on Earth from at least the 21st through 23rd centuries. 

Though the Traité de Unification creating the United Earth Republic was not signed and ratified until 2113, the agency was in existence as early as 2067, when the unmanned interstellar probe Friendship 1 was launched towards the Delta Quadrant under UESPA's auspices. 

UESPA was formed from NASA, ESA and other national space agencies sometime after World War III. (Orion Press: "Lexicon, U-Z", 2010 revision) Its precursor organization was the International Space Agency, which had subsumed many national agencies -- but not NASA -- as early as the 2030s. 


 * The Indonesian Space Agency ( novelization) was a separate entity from UESPA, at least in 2063, when they would have paid any price to get a hold of Zefram Cochrane's warp drive.

Prior to the founding of the Federation, UESPA and the Earth Starfleet worked jointly to administer the NX Project as well as the first warp-5 capable ships such as Enterprise (NX-01). 

UESPA was the operating authority for both the USS Enterprise and the SS Antares, c. 2267.


 * It may be that at least the five founding members of the each had its own space-exploration organization and each contributed funds to Starfleet as well as supported their own survey efforts. (Orion Press: The Plumber's Helper)

Personnel and materiél from UESPA contributed to the building of the Enterprise-B, so the organization existed at least as late as 2293. ( artwork)