The heads of the Canadian, European and Japanese space agencies said that their governments may not make decisions until 2016 on whether to continue to participate in the international space station beyond 2020.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...