ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes the interaction between the new institutions of European space collaboration and the reformation of national policy logic from the mid-1970s to the late-1980s. It considers the way in which the institutions of European collaboration were defined by the European Space Agency (ESA) Convention, particularly in terms of the relationship with national programs and articulation of different national logics. The chapter focuses on the effects and consequences of American offers for International Space Station programs and how the policy logic of Member States changed. It focuses on the process of institutional development at national level, since European decisions had a significant impact on the formation of national space policy institutions. The British decision to opt out of three major programs – Ariane 5, Hermes, and Columbus Man-Tended Free-Flyer – generated the problem of the reallocation of the share of contributions. One of the new features introduced in the ESA Convention was the positive encouragement of 'Europeanization'.
