@kchangnyt piece on going back to the Moon is pretty good but overlooks the international effort ESA organized 10 years ago with their long term strategy for heading back. It was notable because the US wasn’t involved with it while others were.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/12/science/nasa-moon-apollo-artemis.html …
I did have a quick mention of it: "The European Space Agency has put out a concept of an international “moon village” envisioned for sometime around 2050." But it seems it never got past the pretty paintings stage.
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I wondered if lack of space in print was the reason for not much detail. Back when it came out, ESA had a lot of discussions with Russia and NASA about it. There was some money set aside and it seemed a pretty decent roadmap, but as you point out seemed to have gone nowhere.
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Yes. This is what led to partnership w/ESA building Orion SM. They were considering launching Orion on Ariane V. I believe it all fell apart with advent of commercial crew; which would have made Orion/Ariane obsolete, or at least absurdly overpriced.
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