On Thursday 19 October, at the close of the ESA Council, the Director General of the European Space Agency, Josef Aschbacher, said that the European Union needed to be ambitious when it came to space exploration, which will be one of the topics at the Space Summit in Seville on 6 and 7 November.
Recalling that India wanted to establish a space station by 2025 and put a man on the moon by 2040, and China by 2030, Mr Aschbacher explained that “the EU needed to be ambitious and...