  Education is a prerequisite to master the challenges of space science and
technology. Efforts to understand and control space science and technology are
necessarily intertwined with social expressions in the cultures where science
and technology is carried out. The United Nations is leading an effort to
establish regional Centres for Space Science and Technology Education in major
regions on Earth. The status of the establishment of such institutions in Asia
and the Pacific, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Western Asia, and
Eastern Europe is briefly described in this article.
