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  ESA's Budget Ministerial to be held in Caserta, Italy

  Posted by Amy Svitak 7:29 PM on Apr 16, 2012

  When European Space Agency ministers meet this fall to hash out the agency's next multiyear budget, they will gather in Caserta, Italy, north of Naples. Slated for the third week o... Read More >>

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  EADS-Astrium Gets Ariane 5 ME Contract Ahead of Key Budget Decision

  Posted by Amy Svitak 1:24 PM on Apr 10, 2012

  Slapping together a €112-million ($147-million) contract to continue work on a launch vehicle upgrade that could get scrapped eight months from now might seem odd. However,... Read More >>

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  France's New Space Strategy -- Just in Time for the Election

  Posted by Amy Svitak 7:56 AM on Mar 29, 2012

  France unveiled a new space strategy last week that calls for gradual integration of the European Space Agency (ESA) into the European Union, among other ideas. During a March 2... Read More >>

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  Europe's ATV-3 Docks with International Space Station

  Posted by Mark Carreau 10:34 PM on Mar 28, 2012

  ESA's ATV-3 holds 30 meters from the space station, moments before a smooth docking. Photo Credit: NASA TV  The European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle-3, the Edoar... Read More >>

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  Space Station Astronauts Take Shelter as Debris Threat Passes

  Posted by Mark Carreau 6:43 AM on Mar 24, 2012

  The six astronauts aboard the International Space Station took shelter aboard their docked Soyuz spacecraft early Saturday to wait out a predicted close pass from a piece of debris... Read More >>

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  Enroute to ISS

  Posted by Guy Norris 6:29 AM on Mar 23, 2012

  The Ariane 5 carrying ESA’s ATV Edoardo Amaldi makes a dramatic night time launch as it lifts off from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana at 04:34 GMT, heading... Read More >>

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  ESA's Third ATV Lifts Off With Supplies for the International Space Station

  Posted by Mark Carreau 5:06 AM on Mar 23, 2012

  The European Space Agency's third Automated Transfer Vehicle, the Edoardo Amaldi, sped toward a March 28 rendezvous and docking with the International Space Station, hours after a ... Read More >>

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  The Plug Is Pulled

  Posted by Frank Morring, Jr. 3:19 PM on Feb 10, 2012

  Colleague Amy Svitak in Paris reports the European Space Agency is ready to go to Mars with Russia, after NASA abruptly pulled out of talks on a three-way program.Meanwhile, U.S. p... Read More >>

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  NASA Astronaut Joe Acaba, a Former High and Middle School Science and Math Teacher, Prepares for a Long Stay Aboard the International Space Station

  Posted by Mark Carreau 5:54 PM on Jan 12, 2012

  NASA Astronaut Joe Acaba, right, trains with Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka, left, and Sergei Revin at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Photo Credit/NASAThese days, it's ju... Read More >>

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  Soyuz Docking Returns International Space Station to Six Crew Operations

  Posted by Mark Carreau 4:56 PM on Dec 23, 2011

  The International Space Station resumed sustained six crew operations for the first time in more than three months on Friday, with the arrival of the multi-national 29 Soyuz crew.T... Read More >>

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