Fiscal Realities Complicate ARV Decision

By Frank Morring, Jr., Michael A. Taverna
Prague, Prague

New costs associated with the planned extension of the International Space Station could force European nations into stark choices in an era of generalized budget squeeze.

The U.S., Japan, Canada and Russia have already OK’d the five-year extension and European Space Agency Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain tells reporters at the 61st International Astronautical Congress here that the agency ...

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