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Appendix G
Pages 151-154

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... G Letter from the European Space Agency to the Vice President of the United States, June ~3, ~994 Use
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... Over the-past five years, while ESA's Long-Term Space Plan has been forced' to undergo a series of significant revisions, driven primarily 'by; our' own budget ~imitations, The Member States have maintained it' full commitment to the space science portion of' the plan, of which CASSINI is an essential component. To date, the Member State governments of ESA have.committed around S300 Million'to our portion of the mission (the Huygens Probe that will descend ' into the atmosphere of Saturn's Moon Titan, and several elements of the Saturn Orbiter Payload)
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... Approximately 900 European scientists and engineers are working on the programme with more than 30 European institutes and universities involved in the preparation of CASSINI/HUYGENS science. Europe therefore views any prospect of a unilateral withdrawal from the cooperation on the part of the United States as totally unacceptable.
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