Full Fledged Space Power

NASA chief urges Europe to build manned spaceship

“NASA encouraged Europe on Thursday to develop its own manned spaceship, which would give the world — and particularly the U.S. — another way of reaching the international space station. Europe became “a full-fledged space power,” the agency’s administrator said, when flight controllers at a European Space Agency center guided an unmanned cargo ship to the international space station in April, successfully delivering food, water and clothes.”