[FWD] Proof why Europe will always be last place in space exploration

....Once again, the Old World demonstrates why it'll always be in last
place where space exploration is concerned:

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/esa-general-03u.html

....Not just idiots, but cheap idiots.

OM

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OM om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org wrote in message . ..
...Once again, the Old World demonstrates why it'll always be in last
place where space exploration is concerned:

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/esa-general-03u.html

...Not just idiots, but cheap idiots.


OM

ESA has tended to prefer joint missions, but have carried out missions on
their own , when NASA* pulled out of Giotto, ESA went ahead anyway.
This was one the USA's most stupid space flight decisions .

*Really the Regan State Department! Of all things!

ESA has tended to prefer joint missions, but have carried out missions on
their own , when NASA* pulled out of Giotto, ESA went ahead anyway.
This was one the USA's most stupid space flight decisions .
Yeah, ESA's learned not to count on US to be reliable. ESA was interested
in and paying for, adapting the X-38 CRV for launching on the Arianne but
whaddya know? The US unilaterally cancelled the program.!
You can read into that decision our lie about wanting to cooperate with
Europe. Actually we want to dominate space for strategic military/industrial
power reasons. nasa blockades space and doesn't want CATS.
It's way to soon to say Europe can't leapfrog us. But if they won't, China
will.

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On 10 Nov 2003 16:44:29 -0800, (Al Jackson) wrote:


ESA has tended to prefer joint missions, but have carried out missions on
their own , when NASA* pulled out of Giotto, ESA went ahead anyway.
This was one the USA's most stupid space flight decisions .

*Really the Regan State Department! Of all things!

I think your confusing Giotto and Ulysses. I might be wrong, but I
don't recall the Halley mission being a NASA/ESA joint project. Both
had their own, and the US cancelled its.

The International Solar Polar Mission was to be a joint project
involving two spacecraft to orbit the Sun's poles. NASA severely
reduced its participation, resulting in only the ESA spacecraft
flying. ISPM was later renamed Ulysses.

Brian