887547 The First Committee of French Aeronautics, c.1927 (b/w photo) by French Photographer, (20th century); Archives Larousse, Paris, France; (add.info.: In front, Robert Esnault-Pelterie (1881-1957) pioneering French aviator, aircraft designer and spaceflight theorist and Andre-Louis Hirsch, Parisian banker and science enthusiast who set up the Prix REP-Hirsch, an international award of the Soci矇t矇 astronomique de France, given in recognition of the study of interplanetary travel and astronautics (the first for astronautics in the world) "to recognize the best original scientific work, theoretical or experimental, that is able to advance one of the questions related to the realisation of space travel, or to increase human understanding of one of the branches related to the science of astronautics.); French, out of copyright.