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Axiom and SpaceX are disrupting Europe’s traditional pathway to space (arstechnica.com)
submitted 10 months ago by Dju to c/space
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

ESA is pursuing a commercial cargo program (with a commercial crew program likely to follow), but they are a decade or so behind the NASA/SpaceX/Axiom partnerships which currently exist in the US.

[–] ConstipatedWatson 2 points 10 months ago

Ah, cool! I didn't know that. Yes, unfortunately the EU is behind both in the tech and space sector: different countries, laws and regulations prevent the same type of agile environment that the US has. Still, it's important that the EU keeps pushing its programs