ESA is hoping a successful Artemis 1 mission can build support for broader exploration plans. One initiative the agency is seeking funding for is a large cargo lander that can support later Artemis missions. “We hope on our side that these so-called ‘Argonaut’ landers could be ESA’s next contribution to European exploration history, but the ministers will decide in November,” Parker said.
The ESA astronauts that will fly on upcoming Artemis missions will likely be selected from the existing group of seven active astronauts, Aschbacher said. “The selection will need to be made sooner rather than later because, at some point, the training needs to start,” he said, but added there was no date set yet for any announcement.
ESA is also in the final stages of selecting a new astronaut class. “I will select the next class of astronauts pretty soon,” he said. “This will be happening in the coming weeks and it will be the most diverse class yet.”
>it will be the most diverse class yet.” betcha there won't be any Russians. So in reality, not very diverse at all. Either way, some German "woman" with an afro will steer this fuckin ship the wrong way and it will never see the moon. LOL
>“I will select the next class of astronauts pretty soon,” he said. “This will be happening in the coming weeks and it will be the most diverse class yet.” I hope they'll send our politicians to establish a new colony on the sun.
Nathan Jones
why would germany have any say in ESA when germany does not contribute anything to ESA?
the EU needs to burn, the faster the better
Aaron Turner
I hope it fails
Austin Clark
>germany does not contribute anything to ESA? bruh
Christian Torres
Kek
Luis Miller
Nobody cares. Rockets are meme technology.
Ryan Harris
Where can i find and buy grey alien slaves and exploits some of there resources in the moon?
ArianeSpace is french The launchpad in French guyana is french Everyone at the ESA launches is speaking in French
The entire ESA is completely french, with the EU forcing us to let random EU member states build individual rocket parts we could build better and cheaper, making the entire process ten times less efficient, just so that they can feel less useless by giving them participiation trophees, it's almost a symbol of the disgusting inefficiency of the EU buraucracy
Matthew Murphy
>the most diverse class yet FUCK the ESA, FUCK the EU and FUCK diversity
Okay gottcha, I wonder why they keep saying décoller when they launch ESA stuff. What do the Germans do? I think they make the flight systems and mission planning or is it also done by French?
Luke Hernandez
Why brown guy is small?
Kayden Martinez
EUR ti the moon! Diamond hands!
Wyatt Bell
>germans >contribution to ... Well, pick one and one only my user friend. germans are leeches, I thought everyone knew that.
It’s ownership is diversified. Anyway, AiraneSpace is a rocket launch company, ESA is a space agency. It’s like NASA vs SpaceX.
Christopher Gutierrez
a midget nigger goin’ to da Moon.
Gabriel Ward
>Okay gottcha, I wonder why they keep saying décoller when they launch ESA stuff. yes that's why they say "Trois Deux, Un, Décollage, Allumage E-A-P", and not " drei zwei eins abheben"
ESA is just FSA larping as a European collaboration, back in the early days of ArianeSpace, France built the entire rockets, but after EU meddling, now they force the company to build their rocket by outsourcing ~30% of the rocket to other EU member states, just so that they can feel less useless by getting participation trophee
> What do the Germans do? I will have to look it up I found it:
Germany makes the combustion chamber for the first stage engine, by the german companies "EADS astrium" and "MAN Technologie", who were working for the swedish company volvo aero Corporation
Apparently there is also one of the ring segments , literally a metal cylinder that touches the interstage fairing, that is also built in germany, those the only things, the CMC machined combustion chamber of the engine block, and a metal ring
