Rescue Mission For European Space Industry

Posted by timothy on Tuesday June 3, 2003 @08:22PM from the they're-creating-more-space dept.

metz2000 writes "The New Scientist reports that the European Space Agency (ESA) has pledged hundreds of millions of Euros to guarantee its independent access to space. Europe also looks set to co-operate with the Russian Space Agency. Looks like the space industry is hotting up again. How will NASA react to this news after being the dominant space agency over the past three decades? A lot of money is going into rocket technology also; with this and the 'European version' of GPS are we heading towards a future conflict across the Atlantic?"

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Conflict not across Atlantic... by rediguana · 2003-06-03 22:30 · Score: -1, Redundant

but above it. At least according to this article. Scary how a number of these things are starting to come together at the same time... it sounds like it is in the rest of the world's interest to support anything that isn't American. Which is a real pity that the DOD just can't play nice with the rest of us. Cheap, GPS guided cruise missile anyone?.