Edinburgh, 16/11/2001 (Agence Europe) - Edelgard Bulmahn, German Space Minister, who chaired the Council of Ministers of the European Space Agency (ESA) which finished in Edinburgh on Thursday evening with genuine progress on the GALILEO and GMES programmes, said that the conference marked the beginning of a new era for the European space venture. This ministerial meeting is held every two years (more or less) to set the ESA's guidelines, and this particular meeting was the first one to be...