re: No more large crews for ISS
The ESA had hoped for years the ISS would be able to house a crew of 6 or 7 permanent residents; it's over.
I wonder what the Italians think of this. They depended heavily on the ISS.
Many countries have spent a lot of money hopng for a place in space, but for many those hopes are dashed.
In 1972, our then minister Theo Lefevre decided that the ESA would build the Spacelab module and develop a new launcher (Ariane). It's very easy to understand which one of the two became the most successful space-related tool for the ESA.
Raoul