The European Space Agency announced Monday it would hold a competition between firms to build a ship to deliver cargo to the International Space Station, in a potential first step towards independent missions carrying astronauts.- 'First step' -
A source close to the negotiations told AFP that "if we want to carry out manned flights, (the cargo ship competition) is the first step."
reporting, they are basically extracting the nutritional value of insects to be incorporated in food products that europeans are used to. pasta, bread and other goods. europe s so called workhorse rocket, ariane 5, has blasted off for a final time, after 27 years of launches. the farewell mission comes at a difficult time for european space efforts, with delays to the next generation ariane. the craft was designed as a heavy lift carrier, capable of delivering payloads of up to a hundred thousand kilos into low earth orbit. that is it for now.