Josef Aschbacher, DG of the European Space Agency (ESA), makes a plea for the goals set out in the Matosinhos Manifesto, which was unanimously adopted by Member States at the intermediate ministerial meeting last week, and more generally for an ambitious Europe in the space field.
In Earth’s more than 4 billion years of existence, it has had so many monumental moments. So much evolution. The first human to discover the use of fire, to invent the wheel. The first human to walk on the Moon,...