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From the tl;dr: > to enable the first European to explore the Moon’s surface by 2030 Maybe I'm unambitious but I'm pretty excited to see this.
by darkwater 4y ago
From the tl;dr:
> to enable the first European to explore the Moon’s surface by 2030
Maybe I'm unambitious but I'm pretty excited to see this.
- p1esk 4y agoDoes “enable” mean “send”?
- TeMPOraL 4y agoMore like "be a part of the thing that got them there". Purposefully avoiding the specifics, as to avoid locking themselves into a specific course of action.
- panick21_ 4y agoWhat it means is that they will do a deal with NASA for seats on Starship. In exchange they will fiance some modules that Starship will deliver on Mars.
- 908B64B197 4y agoTo me that's smoke and mirror. They'll be paying for a ride on a US mission, flown from US soil on an all-American launch system (no European can even get near its engineering thanks to out of control European immigration policies and ITAR). It's not like Europe could do it on it's own. Millions of dollar so that bureaucrats can have pictures of an European person on the moon and claim "look, 'we' did it too!". Absolutely no European engineering involved. Is this the European vision for space?
- Rebelgecko 4y agoDoes "enabling" even result in anything to see?