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NASA and ESA officials speaks about Atlantis launch in Florida
ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain speaks during a post-launch press conference on mission STS-122 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on February 7, 2008. NASA launched Space Shuttle Atlantis on an 11 day service mission to the international space station. (UPI Photo/Kevin Dietsch)

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Space station missions called 'chaos'
PARIS, June 22 (UPI) -- Missions to the International Space Station are in chaos because of a failure to agree on how to transport supplies and crews, a European official says.
PARIS, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- The head of the European Space Agency says rocket launch "traffic will be much heavier" in 2011 at its French Guiana spaceport.
MOSCOW, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Plans to add crew members to the International Space Station might be delayed, the head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos said Saturday.
PRAGUE, Czech Republic, July 8 (UPI) -- The European Space Agency says it has signed an agreement that will lead to the Czech Republic's accession to the ESA Convention.
German Chancellor Merkel meets astronauts
BERLIN, June 4 (UPI) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel met European and U.S. astronauts this week in Berlin.
BERLIN, May 27 (UPI) -- The European Space Agency and Astrium GmbH have signed a $414 million contract to produce the EarthCARE satellite, the ESA's sixth Earth Explorer mission.
NOORDWIJK, Netherlands, April 10 (UPI) -- The European Space Agency's new lab at its Netherlands space research center was officially opened Wednesday by Dutch Crown Prince Willem Alexander.
DARMSTADT, Germany, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- Britain's minister of state for science visited the European Space Agency's operations center Wednesday -- the first visit from a British state secretary.
BONN, Germany, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- German astronaut Thomas Reiter is joining the executive board of the German Space Agency, or DLR, as head of space research and development.
PARIS, June 18 (UPI) -- The European Space Agency and Thales Alenia Space have signed a $305 million contract for the design and development of the Sentinel-1 satellite.
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