When NASA will become an ESAs member?

Thomas Womack Wrote:
> In article ddcvv7$7ef$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> Olaf van der Zalm olafzalm@xxxxxxx wrote:--
> 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.-
>
> Although it's hard to justify, one gets the impression that ESA does
> slightly more conservative missions, if only that their score for Mars
> landings is 0 for 1 rather than the 5 for 6 of NASA. Huygens and
> Philae are neither of them conservative, though I've no idea what the
> odds on Philae [Rosetta's lander]'s successful landing are. I get the
> slight impression that Arianespace may be a little easier to deal with
> for moderate-to-largish launches than the US equivalents; ESA launches
> smaller missions on Russian rockets for the obvious cost reasons.
>
> There was recently a slight feeling that ESA and NASA were running
> oddly parallel missions: Kepler vs Corot for bulk accurate photometry,
> Messenger vs Beppo-Colombo for Mercury orbiters.
>
> Tom

hi
ESA's Space Science:
http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEMG0KR1VED_index_0.html
then you click on "Science Mission" (left and down) and you have the
list with links, a long and interesting list.
Rémy


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Rémy MERCIER

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