2-2-2-9 MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION AND THE EUROPEAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION FOR A COOPERATIVE PROGRAMME CONCERNING DEVELOPMENT, PROCUREMENT AND USE OF A SPACE LABORATORY IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE SPACE SHUTTLE SYSTEM

Article XVI: Entry into Force

This Memorandum of Understanding shall enter into force when both the NASA Administrator and the Director General of ESRO have signed it and it has been confirmed under the terms of the Agreement between the Governments of the participating European States and the Government of the United States of America concerning this cooperative programme.

Dated 14 August 1973

A. Hocker

For the European Space Research Organisation

James C. Fletcher

For the National Aeronautics and Space Administration