re: Do you agree with this? :
To me it's just a reminder that we are different from our European friends plus they haven't had as much experience as NASA in delivering never before seen event missions to the public.
Right now it seems the need for recognition on there part for the missions as seen from this <snip>
In more general terms, Huygens is a landmark mission for the European Space Agency (Esa).BBC article.
This was a mission its US counterpart, Nasa, would surely be proud to have called its own.
Of course, there was a glitch (as there are with all big space missions), which is now the subject of an Esa inquiry.
But it was impossible to ignore the sense of being caught up in an historic event.
It's there glory of accomplishment for this historic event and they haven't had anything like this before so they might be overly zealous and truely "caught up",but hey, go for it!
Hopefully they can learn from this.
I'd like to know what they Euorpean general public has to say about there ESA people and performance.