Doug McCuistion, Mars programm director. - Photo : rke |
Pensez-vous que ce magnifique vol puisse améliorer la
coopération internationale avec l’Europe, notamment ? La réponse confirme
la position de la NASA qui reste en « stand by », mais qui assure
qu’une collaboration a toujours été appréciée dans ce domaine de l’exploration.
En tous cas, il ne m’a pas semblé que le sujet blesse qui que soit, au
contraire. Doug McCuistion, le directeur du programme Mars à la NASA, m’a
semblé perplexe de ne pas pouvoir tenir les engagements initiaux envers nous,
Européens. Alors, peut-on encore faire confiance en l’Agence spatiale
américaine ?
Alors, ça ira mieux la coopération martienne ? - Photo : NASA TV |
Curiosity goes while the
Martian international cooperation waits
The question was embarrassing and troublesome, but I had to
ask it. During the press conference that followed the launch, this Saturday,
November 26, I almost held to keep my request because the case is rather
delicate strategically and politically. In brief: NASA, with whom the European
Space Agency (ESA) was in talks for three years to accomplish, this year, a
joint mission to Mars « ExoMars-C » could not commit until it does
not know its 2013-2014 budget (scheduled for fall 2012). An European side, the
politicos (Space La Haye ministers) will not pay more than 1 billion euros,
whereas previously they intended to extend the ... more money. So, on one side
or the other of the Atlantic, everyone tightens the belt for this international
program very motivating and very unifying. NASA would then commissioned its
transport capacity of this futre spacecraft, the Europeans would have designed
the robot.
Do you think this wonderful flight to improve
international cooperation with Europe in particular ? The response confirms the
position of NASA is to « stand by », but that ensures that collaboration
has always been appreciated in this space exploration of Mars conquest. In any
case, it did not seem to hurt the subject matter, however. Doug McCuistion, Mars
program director at NASA, seemed perplexed not be able to take the initial
commitments to us Europeans. So, can we still trust in the U.S. space agency ?
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