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French plans for reform of ESA

imipak View Member Profile	Jul 1 2008, 06:58 PM Post #1
Member Group: Members Posts: 646 Joined: 23-December 05 From: Forest of Dean Member No.: 617	Report on the BBC News site (which I've not heard mentioned on any other BBC news output today): QUOTE Ambitious plans for European missions to the Moon and Mars are being considered by the French government. It wants to kick-start a revolution in space by letting EU politicians not bureaucrats decide on priorities for the European Space Agency (Esa). [ ...snip a lot of woolly stuff about manned missions to Mars and the need for politically defined objectives... ] According to the French, the UK is their model partner in this endeavour. choke well that's, uh, interesting... Fairly long and interesting article - a little bit off-topic for UMSF perhaps, but some might be interested. -------------------- -- Viva software libre!

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djellison View Member Profile	Jul 2 2008, 01:32 PM Post #2
Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14457 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1	ahem... political politicians president m v um oil 1.2 of http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?act=boardrules - 1.2 Politics - the discussion of politics is strictly forbidden. The distribution of money between projects within a space agency is a valid discussion, but outside that scope is not. Discussion of politicians, politics, political parties, various topics of the moment (Iraq, Terrorism) are all very much off topic and posts that include them will be removed. Please don't 'test' or 'push' the rules. It's hard to draw a line, but one HAS been drawn, and you all seem hell bent of dancing along it.

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imipak French plans for reform of ESA Jul 1 2008, 06:58 PM

djellison Doing a little dance along the 'no politics... Jul 1 2008, 09:30 PM

Juramike It all sounds good. Another space race would be a... Jul 1 2008, 09:57 PM

TheChemist Yep, it sounds good. However, under the current fi... Jul 2 2008, 12:09 AM

dvandorn The current financial strains are only going to ge... Jul 2 2008, 04:34 AM

imipak QUOTE (dvandorn @ Jul 2 2008, 05:34 AM) I... Jul 2 2008, 06:12 AM

dvandorn Well... I see the greatest resource challenge upc... Jul 2 2008, 06:49 AM

Bernard Please do not rejoyce too early... This is only ... Jul 2 2008, 08:10 AM

jmknapp QUOTE (imipak @ Jul 1 2008, 01:58 PM) Rep... Jul 2 2008, 11:54 AM

djellison ahem... political politicians president m v um oi... Jul 2 2008, 01:32 PM

ngunn I agree, and I didn't mind at all that one of ... Jul 2 2008, 02:10 PM

imipak In retrospect I regret starting the topic and crea... Jul 2 2008, 08:02 PM

ngunn QUOTE (imipak @ Jul 2 2008, 09:02 PM) In ... Jul 2 2008, 09:47 PM

djellison What was very funny at the little dinner we had in... Jul 2 2008, 10:13 PM

ElkGroveDan QUOTE (djellison @ Jul 2 2008, 02:13 PM) ... Jul 2 2008, 11:31 PM

TheChemist Perhaps we can show character and discuss this wit... Jul 2 2008, 11:14 PM

djellison It's all words, basically, until the November ... Jul 2 2008, 11:19 PM

nprev Rule 1.2 is a damn good idea. In fact, I personall... Jul 4 2008, 02:12 PM

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