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- From: veit@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Veit Zimmermann)
- Subject: Re: ESA Future
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.210944.3023@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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- Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
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- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 21:09:44 GMT
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- ccoprmd@prism.gatech.EDU (Matthew DeLuca) writes:
-
- >Well, geographically it is partly in Europe, (it's as much Asian as
- >European, if we want to get picky) but socially, economically, and
- >culturally it is pretty far off...I can't see them getting into the ESA,
- >especially with all the petty bickering and infighting among the member
- >nations.
- >
- >Besides...you'd have to get Ukraine in there as well, since they make
- >some of the rockets, and nobody knows how long Russia and they are going
- >to remain on speaking terms...
- >
- >The best bet for Europe is to get their act together, decide what they
- >*really* want, and get it done, and not look to the outside for help.
-
- In fact the russian space agency (i don't remember the name)
- DID ask for membership in the esa. I don't know if or when the esa
- will decide and/or say yes.
- This would make the esa easily the bigest space agency... ;)
-
- Hope this will shock your "great nation" a little bit :)
-
- CIAO
- veit
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