How can the International Space Station live up to its name if a major contributor doesn’t have the means to get there?
LOOK into the night sky at the right time and place and you will catch a flash of sunlight reflected from the International Space Station. The public perception around the world is that this sprawl of modules is basically an American project. In fact, the ISS – perhaps the world’s most impressive piece of engineering – is also a product of European industrial and diplomatic expertise, matched in ambition only by the CERN particle accelerator.
The major European component…
