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Europe destroys last space truck to ISS

16 February 2015

The European Space Agency (ESA) said it had destroyed its last supply ship to the International Space Station, bringing a seven-year venture to a successful close. The last of five robot delivery vessels that ESA pledged for the US-led ISS project, the Georges Lemaitre, burned up in a suicide plunge into Earth’s atmosphere, the agency said.







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