MADRID, June 10 (EUROPA PRESS) –
This Monday, Spain and the United States signed the renewal of the Scientific Cooperation Agreement that allows NASA to use the Tracking Station in Robledo de Chavela for another fifteen years.
With this new version, aspects of the practical operation of the Station are improved and the Spanish Space Agency is incorporated, as reported by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.
The document, which reflects decades of collaboration between both countries, has been signed by the Secretary of State for Foreign and Global Affairs, Diego Martínez Belío, and the United States ambassador to Spain, Julissa Reynoso.
The Minister of Science, Innovation and Universities, Diana Morant, has highlighted that, with this agreement, “the alliance remains between two countries united by the same idea of democratic progress and bringing science to the development of a better society.”
Likewise, he pointed out that “Spain has placed space research among the strategic priorities of our policies because this is an extraordinary tool for innovation and social development.”
The event also included the participation of the Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, and the senior representative of NASA, Kenneth D. Bowersox.
Next October marks the 60th anniversary of the first scientific cooperation agreement between Spain and the United States to provide NASA with certain land and rights of way in the municipalities of Robledo de Chavela and Las Navas del Rey, in Madrid.
Spain and the United States thus demonstrate their mutual trust and their willingness to continue working together in such relevant areas as science and space research.
