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In a groundbreaking announcement by theEuropean Space Agency (ESA), Germany will be sending the first European astronaut to the Moon as part of NASA’s Artemis program. This achievement marks a ...
The European Space Agency (ESA) has signed a further contract with Airbus for the construction of three more European Service Modules (ESM) for Orion, the American crewed spacecraft for the Artemis ...
Airbus says it is shipping the fourth European Service Module (ESM-4) to the U.S. to support a future Artemis IV mission despite uncertainty over that endeavor. ESM-4 has completed integration at ...
BREMEN, Germany — A German astronaut will be the first European to fly to the moon with a future NASA-led Artemis mission, the European Space Agency's (ESA) Director General Josef Aschbacher said at ...