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Seems strange that the ATV flights are to stop after the next one, at least
if I read the press releases correctly.

No bucks, no Buck Rogers. ATV is quite expensive to produce, but it
does make one wonder that ESA's contribution to ISS will be going
forward.

Jeff
--
"the perennial claim that hypersonic airbreathing propulsion would
magically make space launch cheaper is nonsense -- LOX is much cheaper
than advanced airbreathing engines, and so are the tanks to put it in
and the extra thrust to carry it." - Henry Spencer