PARIS — The European Space Agency (ESA) has set a goal of reducing what it spends annually to run its international space station program by 5 percent through 2015 as it seeks to maximize the portion of its space station budget available for conducting scientific experiments on the orbiting laboratory, the agency’s station manager said. Bernardo Patti said the 18-nation ESA, like all the station partners — NASA, Russia, Japan and Canada — is looking for ways to cut spending on station operations without cutting into the facility’s scientific output.
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