#space - European governments pledged almost US$13 billion for future space missions in November 2008, funding an ambitious plan for space exploration, including the ExoMars mission to place a robotic vehicle on Mars.The 18 member states of the European Space Agency agreed a number of space projects including satellites to monitor climate change, a long list of experiments for the International Space Station and updates to the Ariane rocket, which carries European payloads into space.
The $1.5 billion ExoMars project is set to blast off in 2016, carrying a landing rover to Mars which will drill two meters into the planet's surface to take soil samples.
Source: Voice of America
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