Monday, February 12, 2007

Christmas comes early for European Space Agency

Christmas comes early for European Space Agency

The European Space Agency has received 97% of the funding it requested from its member states for the next five years, following a top-level meeting in Berlin, Germany. Programmes received more funding than had been requested - including the ExoMars mission to send a rover to search for signs of life on the Red Planet in 2011. It will now receive a large portion of the €724 million ($853 million) in the space exploration budget.

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