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According to "Polska" daily newspaper, Polish deputies gathered in the Outer Space Team are planning to set up a national space agency, similar to the American NASA.
Poland participates in the PECS (Plan for European Cooperating State Charter) programme carried out by the European Space Agency, yet in this way Poland spends only a small fraction of all EU funds allocated for space research.
However, such a space agency must be properly financed. In 2008 Poland will spend 7 million euro on space research, which is a very modest budget when compared with this of NASA or ESA, or even national space agencies of, for example, France or Italy.
The idea of a Polish space agency is supported by deputies from different political parties. Yet, the route to such an agency is very long, taking into account the fact that Poland does not even have its own satellite in space.
Currently the main Polish centre dealing with cosmic research is the Space Research Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
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