Na wenn das kein Bekenntnis zur Entwicklung einer europäischen bemannten Raumfahrt ist !
Früher haben solche Statements bei immer zu freudiger Erwartung geführt ... heute weiß ich wie die Sache läuft und warte erst mal was passiert. Nur zur Erinnerung hier noch mal die Aurora Roadmap der ESA mit u.a. Mondlandung 2024 : :'(
These are some of the highlights of the current Aurora roadmap:
2007 – an entry vehicle demonstrator mission to validate and demonstrate high-speed re-entry technology
2009 – ExoMars, an exobiology mission to send a rover to Mars in order to search for traces of life – past or present – and characterise the nature of the surface environment.
2011 / 2014 – Mars sample return, a split mission to bring back to Earth the first samples of Martian material
2014 – Human mission technologies demonstrator(s) to validate technologies for orbital assembly and docking, life support and human habitation
2018 – a technology precursor mission to demonstrate aerobraking/aerocapture, solar electric propulsion and soft landing (formerly envisaged as a smaller Arrow-class mission to be launched in 2010)
2024 – a human mission to the Moon to demonstrate key life support and habitation technologies, as well as aspects of crew performance and adaptation and in situ resources utilisation technologies
2026 – an automatic mission to Mars to test the main phases of a human mission to Mars
2030 / 2033 – a split mission that will culminate in the first human landing on Mars
Quelle:
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Exploration/Aurora_s_roadmap_to_Mars