ESA hat nie versucht, eine Mondlandung zu landen. „[We] sprang über die Idee eines Mondrovers und konzentrierte sich stattdessen auf die Exomars -Mission [because] Zwischen 2005 und 2010 begann Amerika zu flüstern, dass die Chinesen kommen, wir müssen zum Mond zurückkehren. „Jetzt ist diese Mission mit NASA -Budgetkürzungen bedroht.
https://www.supercluster.com/editorial/has-europe-given-up-on-the-new-moon-race
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ExoMars started as an ESA-NASA cooperation. NASA was supposed to provide the lander and ESA the rover.
Then the US pulled out, forcing us to ask Russia instead.
Then 2022 happened and obviously Russia was no longer an option.
After begging the US, they finally accepted to honor the deal they themselves had made and provide the landing platform.
Then the US pulled out again.
Meanwhile the Rosalind Franklin rover has been collecting dust in storage for years.