European Space Agency seeks to build a permanent base on the moon – RPP News

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The new leadership of the European Space Agency (ESA) wants to build a permanent base on the Moon

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according to information published in El País, the project will be developed at the European Astronaut Centre, based in the German city of Cologne.

“My intention is to build a permanent base on the moon a station open to different member states around the world “, said in a statement Jan Wörner, director of ESA.

the Agency believes that after the successful space mission Apollo is already possible” we take a giant step “in space history.

” we did in the sixties within ten years. So today with a much more developed technology, we are more than ready to get it again, “he said Andreas Mogensen, Agency astronaut.

Wörner said the lunar base will be part of a global project in which Americans, Russians, Chinese, Indians would include, Japanese “and even other countries with lower contributions”.

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