Update (3/7/2008): Welcome to readers of Carnival of Space #61. If you read an interesting space or astronomy themed blog post around the internet this week, send it to Fraser Cain and it might end up in Carnival of Space #62. After that public service announcement, on with the blog...

Via Orbiting Frog I see that President Sarkozy is wanting a more politically driven European Space Agency (ESA). The claim is that without more political control ESA may "fall behind" other space agencies. I...