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Article: NASA and ESA Sign Agreements for Future Cooperation
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- U.S. Newswire
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- June 18, 2007
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Contact: Dwayne Brown, +1-202-358-1726, or Michael Braukus, +1-
202-358-1979, both of NASA Headquarters, Washington
PARIS, June 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- At a ceremony held
Monday at the International Paris Air Show at Le Bourget, France,
NASA Administrator Michael Griffin and European Space Agency (ESA)
Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain signed two agreements defining
the terms of cooperation on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and
the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) Pathfinder mission.
Although it will operate over a different range of wavelengths,
the James Webb Space Telescope is considered the successor to the
Hubble Space Telescope. Its ...