ESA Members Unlikely To Make 10-year Financial Commitment to Station

摘要

Germany has been unable to persuade its European Space Agency (ESA) partners to commit to a 10-year budget to continue use of the international space station until 2020 and likely will have to settle for a more-limited engagement, which will then be renewed in a few years, the head of Germany's space agency said.rnIn an interview Nov. 30, the day the German Federal Cabinet approved a new space policy, Johann-Dietrich Woerner said it appears that only a few ESA space station contributors are able to guarantee their financial support for the full 10-year period.