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06-07-2008, 12:47 AM
PARIS — NASA encouraged Europe on Thursday to develop its own manned spaceship, which would give the world — and particularly the U.S. — another way of reaching the international space station.
Europe became "a full-fledged space power," the agency's administrator said, when flight controllers at a European Space Agency center guided an unmanned cargo ship to the international space station in April, successfully delivering food, water and clothes (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,364123,00.html#).
"It would be a small step" to develop that technology into "an independent European human spaceflight capability," NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said.
"We welcome the development of independent European capabilities in space to provide redundant systems in the event of failure of any one partner's capabilities," he told a gathering of European researchers and space executives at the French parliament....
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Europe became "a full-fledged space power," the agency's administrator said, when flight controllers at a European Space Agency center guided an unmanned cargo ship to the international space station in April, successfully delivering food, water and clothes (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,364123,00.html#).
"It would be a small step" to develop that technology into "an independent European human spaceflight capability," NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said.
"We welcome the development of independent European capabilities in space to provide redundant systems in the event of failure of any one partner's capabilities," he told a gathering of European researchers and space executives at the French parliament....
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,364123,00.html