European Space Chief To Seek ISS Financial Pledges in March

摘要

European Space Agency (ESA) Direc-tor-General Jean-Jacques Dordain on Jan. 14 said Europe may be the last of the inter-national space station (ISS) partners to agree to extend the station's operational life to 2020, but it will be the first to have committed the necessary money to finance the additional operations.Dordain acknowledged there may be an irony in the fact that ESA. the agency that called most loudly for NASA, Russia, Japan and Canada to agree to extend station op-erations, appears to be having the most dif-ficulty in deciding the issue.