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Alenia Spazio and EADS Transportation signed contract on ATV module

Turin, Italy - It will supply to ISS water, air, food and test to astronauts

Six ATV (Automated Transfer Vehicle) modules for ISS, International Space Station, will be Italian. Alenia Spazio CEO, Maurizio Tucci, with EADS President, German Josef Kind, signed in Turin (Italy) an EUR 170m contract to make it. These unmanned space vehicles, planned by European Space Agency (ESA) those American (NASA) and Russian, will supply to ISS an Earth link to transport test, water, air,...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 108495
Rome, Italy, 11/25/2004 13:53
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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