Ambitions could eventually include sending astronauts to the moon and Mars.
An artist's illustration of an Ariane 6 rocket at its launch site at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The European Space Agency wants the capability to launch its own astronauts using the Ariane 6 and/or other European rockets. is pushing for its members to back a program to allow it to independently send astronauts to space and set ambitious, long-term human exploration goals.
by French President Emmanuel Macron earlier on Feb. 16 that called for a study of possibilities for a European human spaceflight program.which both calls to an innate drive of humans to explore and warns of"repeating the mistakes of the past in other strategic domains, which left us dependent on external players for our energy requirements or information technology development.
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