The creative way of the band Space started back in 1977, when Didier Marouani, who was under contract with Polydor Records as a singer at the time, composed Magic Fly and proposed to Polydor to release it as a single. Polydor replied that it would never work on radio and would not sell any record of it.

Marouani had to create a project band to record and publish the track. He hired the lyricist Paul Greedus, Yannick Top, John Edwards (later Status Quo bassist) and Roland Romanelli as well as Dominique Perrier and Roger "Bunny" Rizzitelli, both from the duo Space Art. Space Art released their album Onyx earlier that year.

Due to contract terms, Marouani was not able to use his real name in the band Space, so he released the first album Magic Fly under alias of Ecama and had to perform only in astronaut helmet. Albums Deliverance and Just Blue followed later. The cover for Deliverance was created by the studio Hypgnosis and Storm Thorgerson who was working for Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Alan Parker.

After Deliverance was released, the band was supposed to give a big concert under the Eiffel Tower in Paris; they worked on this project for 6 months, also the promotion for the event. Although, producer decided to cancel the concert 20 days before the show date, and officially that was the reason why Didier Marouani quit the band.

The producer of Space registered the trademark Space under his name, so they've done a 4th album Deeper Zone without Marouani. The album had a limited success because of more experimental attitude coming from Roland Romanelli and lack of catchy melodies.

In 1983 Marouani resurrected with a new band PARIS FRANCE TRANZIT and same name album. This disc sounds as the following album of Space. Later, Marouani initiated a court process to take back the name Space and he succeeded in the mid-80s.

In the 80s Marouani and Space lost all its US popularity of the 70s, as well as general recognition in Europe. It's then they they started to play Space in the USSR on government TV and radio stations (only ones that existed at that time) and the success came immediately; the popularity was all over USSR. After meeting with the Ministry of USSR Culture in 1980 and the Russian Ambassy in Paris, Marouani was offered a tour proposal - more than 30 shows all over the country.

When Marouani finished recording the album Space Opera in 1987, he wrote a letter to Gorbatchev to inform him about the album. Marouani also wrote that nothing has been done in space concerning the culture and music. Soon after that the Minister of Space accepted that the Russian Cosmonauts take with them a Space Opera CD together with a CD player.

Without releasing any new material, Marouani & Space gave a few tours in the 90s, mostly covering ex-USSR territory.

The latest album Symphonic Space Dream, was presented in November 2001 in Kiev, Ukraine and in November 2002 in Moscow, Russia, never making a way out to international market though.