Closer ties between ESA and Russia

Today in Moscow, ESA Director General, Jean-Jacques Dordain and the Head of
the Russian Federal Space Agency, Anatoly Perminov signed an agreement for
long-term cooperation and partnership in the development, implementation and
use of launchers.

Read mo
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/ESA_Perm...HY71Y3E_0.html

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Jacques :-)

www.spacepatches.info

http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/ESA_Perm...HY71Y3E_0.html

This is about two things:

* Launching Soyuz from French Guiana (first launch 2007), and

* Cooperation (without exchange of funds) on "reusable
liquid engines, reusable liquid stages and experimental vehicles.

ESAs aim is to have a new generation launcher ready by 2020."
What seems notable about this is the non-specific nature of the
plans and the long time-frame. But I suppose time will tell whether
any fruit comes of this.

This is good news. Perhaps those two (ESA/Russia) can join forces with
China and thereby flush our NASA back down our own spendy cold-war
infested space toilet where it belongs.

In spite of all the orchestrated flak against my suggestions on behalf
of accomplishing nothing but good and honorable things with your ISS, I
have managed to create a few other related topics, several of which are
not specifically about our moon or Titan, though in more than a few ways
offering just about everything under the sun on behalf of future space
exploration and just plain old space travel that's at least indirectly
related to folks utilizing our moon as a rather necessary gravitational
booster shot, of such missions passing as close to the moon as possible
hasn't even been such a new idea, it just so happens to coincide with
the even better physics logic and values of what the LSE-CM/ISS is good
for.

"Terraforming the moon, before doing Mars or Venus"
"The Moon, LSE-CM/ISS, Venus and beyond, with He3 to burn"
"Lunar/Moon Space Elevator, plus another ISS within the CM"
"Space Policy Sucks, while there's Life on Venus"
"Ice Ages directly regulated by Sirius"
"SETI/GUTH Venus, no kidding"
"Terraforming the moon"
"Relocate ISS to ME-L1"

Relocation of ISS to ME-L1 is certainly much easier said than done, but
at least it's something that's been doable. For the benefit of our
environment, extracting and exporting helium-3(He3/3He) to Earth is just
offering a little beneficial fusion icing on the cake.

Regards, Brad Guth / GASA-IEIS http://guthvenus.tripod.com/gv-topics.htm


"Jacques van Oene" wrote in message


Today in Moscow, ESA Director General, Jean-Jacques Dordain and the Head of
the Russian Federal Space Agency, Anatoly Perminov signed an agreement for
long-term cooperation and partnership in the development, implementation and
use of launchers.

Read mo
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/ESA_Perm...HY71Y3E_0.html




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