Our recent meetings in Paris and Washington gave us significant opportunities to discuss how we will move forward together to achieve mutual goals for human spaceflight and scientific exploration and to build on the longstanding partnership between NASA and CNES. 

The Space News story “Arianespace Faces Multiyear Struggle Stacking Heavier Payloads on Ariane 5” [Sept. 26, page 1] was factually wrong on two key points.