Re: When NASA will become an ESAs member?

> Next december europeans will decide to invest in Kliper and Russians
> will probably become an ESA's member. Early or late the entire world
> will be invited to take part in ESA (the world is one: this is the
> future; do we prefer war?). But without NASA? I bet: in 50 years.

The sooner they team up, the better, ESA has done a pretty good job in
recent years (appart from the Beagle II mishap, which has actually increased
intrest in the Aurora project) with a lot of it's projects. And they do have
a pretty large backtrack of non-European hardware on European SCs and vice
versa. Somehow it seems to me that ESA is doing everything 'right' (or it
just appears that way) and NASA just can't do anything right. Maybe NASA
should mothball the STS and team up with the EU and Russia to build the CEV.

Then they could wory about how to complete the STS together. Since new
design efforts are already thinking about reviving the old OMS, could that
be used (improved off course) to ferry the remaining modules to the ISS? If
I'm correct the Cupola is the heaviest module left (18.5mt) with most other
weighing at least 3 tons less. This is with the range of moderln LVs. So
could an OMS rendez-vous with a space station module left in LEO and ferry
it to the ISS?

Olaf

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