  In this contribution to the panel discussion of the IAU Symposium 388 "Solar
and Stellar Coronal Mass Ejections", I concentrate on white-light observations
of solar coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from space and specifically address the
following aspects: i) history of observations, ii) available catalogs of CMEs,
iii) achievements of space observations of CMEs, iv) future of CME observation,
and v) challenges and future directions.
