Setting space funding priorities is a problem on both sides of the Atlantic. While the United States struggles with whether to keep operating two of the most extraordinary space missions ever undertaken — Voyager and Hubble — Europe is reaching a turning point in 2005 with a key ESA ministerial conference and the definition of the European Union’s 2007-2013 financial package.

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