Russian Kliper not Funded by ESA

anzha writes "It seems that while the Russians are making plans for the future, they are doing so alone. Space.com has an article profiling the Russian Kliper program. Largely seen as a response to the American CEV, the Russians had been stating the ESA would be supporting the enterprise as well. However, this week, ESA decided not to fund the project."

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[Anonymous Coward]

In Europe we have our own way of doing things, just for shits and gigles

Why bother actually going to space when you can just do this, it's the answer, nobody has ever thought of faking it before! Genius!

I realize you are an AC and prolly a troll

[aepervius]

But I'll bite. You realize that ariane, a VERY sucessful space launcher which MAKE money and has got a great track record of reliability, prove quite simply that your idea of QUOTE the ESA is anything more than window dressing to make people feel there is actually some sort of pan-european cooperation going on at even the simplest levels.
is pure horseshit ? You realize that when they started back in 79 they started from enarly nothing, and on the contrary to some country I won't citate, they did not have any NAZI to spare and get their ICBM/Launcher from ? From something made from scratch it looks quite sucessful.

How well anyway I am probably stupid to answer to somebody which like to do name-calling, without having the guts to have a "name" by itself, mister Anonymous coward.