While ESA does team up with international partners to send astronauts back to the moon (notably with NASA for EM-1 and EM-2 missions) – it’d be done within the frame of a Moon Village, however it wouldn’t be the Moon Village. It’s a concept, an understanding, not a single facility. It won’t be built of modules like the ISS, developed by various nations (and soon also commercial companies with Bigelow module about to be sent on ISS), and assembled into a single base. It won’t be single programme like the Apollo. As Jan Wörner said it himself:Ī single place, but multiple uses and multiple users
It will be a very open form of cooperation between various different space-fairing entities to support lunar activities, an understanding of nations to go to the Moon. Houses in that village would be built using 3D printing technology, while population would be made of civilians and scientists, maintaining the base, mining (propellants, water, more) and doing science. Americans would have a manned spaceships that would be used to travel there (but also Russians, Chinese, and in longer terms Indians would develop their own spacecrafts).
Very common perception is that the Moon Village will be some sort of base, where Europe shall put astronauts and invite other nations to visit. I already got some mails asking for a position of the mayer of that village.
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