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50 Antonio Regalado, “Mexico Gets a Space Agency,” AAAS Science news, 22 April 2010, online:
http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/04/mexico-gets-a-space-agency.html. e law
entered into force in July 2010: “Decreto por el que se expide la Ley que crea la Agencia Espacial
Mexicana,” Diario Ocial de la Federación, Secretaría de Gobernación, 30 July 2010, online:
www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5153806&fecha=30/07/2010 (in Spanish).
51 Rory Carroll, “Bolivia to launch satellite into space,” e Guardian, 12 February 2010, online:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/12/bolivia-launch-satellite-space.
52 National Aeronautics and Aerospace Administration, “About NASA,” 2010, online: www.nasa.gov/
about/highlights/what_does_nasa_do.html.
53 Fernand Verger, Isabelle Sourbès-Verger, Raymond Ghirardi and Xavier Pasco, Cambridge
Encyclopedia of Space (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003) at 73-77.
54 Ibid. at 69.
55 Ibid. at 96-97.
56 Ibid. at 81.
57 Ibid. at 68-69.
58 e Sunday Morning Herald, “Top Ocial Deplores Decline of Russian Space Program,”
12 December 2002, online: www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/12/11/1039379887168.html; Olga
Zhdanovich, discussion with author, Montreal, 26 February 2005.
59 Aviation Week and Space Technology, “e Government has Approved,” 7 November 2005 at 28.
60 Roscosmos news, “75 Billion Rubles will be Allocated to the Development of the Space
Programme,” 22 July 2010, online: www.federalspace.ru/main.php?id=2&nid=11754 (in Russian);
for information in English, see Russia & CIS Defence Policy Blog, “Russian Space Budget to Hit 75
Billion Rubles in 2011,” 26 July 2010, online: www.russiandefenseblog.org/?p=1423..
61 European Space Agency, “New member states,” 2010, online: www.esa.int/SPECIALS/About_ESA/
SEMP936LARE_0.html.
62 Times of India, “ISRO rockets into higher orbit with a 35% hike,” 27 February 2010, online: http://
timesondia.indiatimes.com/union-budget-2010/Isro-rockets-into-higher-orbit-with-a-35-hike/
articleshow/5622518.cms.
63 Dean Cheng, “Dragons in Orbit: China’s Space Program Merits Greater Attention,” Space News,
21 August 2006. Figures quoted from members of China National Space Administration place
its budget as high as $2-billion; see also Xinhua, “Chinese spends a 10th of NASA budget on
space activities,” 12 October 2006, online: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-10/12/
content_5194441.htm. In 2006, Lou Ge, the vice-administrator of the China National Space
Administration, estimated the Chinese space budget to be $500-million; see Je Foust, “China,
competition, and cooperation,” e Space Review, 10 April 2006, online: www.thespacereview.com/
article/599/1.
64 N. Peter, “Space Policy, Issues and Trends in 2006/2007,” European Space Policy Institute, 6
September 2007 at 14, online: www.espi.or.at/images/stories/dokumente/studies/6th%20espi%20
report.pdf.
65 CNN News, “Russia Approves Space Funding,” 26 October 2005.
66 NASA, “Space Shuttle,” Mission Archives, 24 May 2009, online: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/
shuttle/shuttlemissions/list_main.html.
67 CNN, “Bush Unveils Vision for Moon and Beyond,” 15 January 2004, online: www.cnn.
com/2004/TECH/space/01/14/bush.space; NASA, “NASA Set to Launch Lunar Reconnaissance
Orbiter in 2008,” Release 06-224, 18 May 2006, online: www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2006/may/
HQ_06224_LRO_update.html.
68 NASA, “NASA Unveils Global Exploration Strategy and Lunar Architecture,” Release 06-361,
4 December 2006, online: www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2006/dec/HQ_06361_ESMD_Lunar_
Architecture.html.
69 Fernand Verger, Isabelle Sourbès-Verger, Raymond Ghirardi and Xavier Pasco, Cambridge
Encyclopedia of Space (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003) at 68-69.
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