The European Space Agency would like to purchase its spacecraft on the market in the future. The missions should become cheaper and more competitive – also in competition with Space-X, Elon Musk’s company.
He wants to go. But it is far from certain that German astronaut Alexander Gerst will be allowed to fly to the moon in a few years. He has already been to the International Space Station ISS twice. But the moon! “I wouldn’t say no, but it’s not about me at all,” he answered at the SZ economic summit when asked whether his next destination was the moon. “We have to be there,” said Gerst. By “we” he means Europe. That’s how everyone on the podium sees it.