Woerner: Cooperation should reign as spacefaring nations clean up Earth orbit and venture beyond ISS

by Brian BergerOctober 24, 2017February 18, 2023

“A Moon Village,” ESA director-general Johann-Dietrich Woerner said in 2015 “shouldn’t just mean some houses, a church and a town hall.” It could be beacon of international and even commercial cooperation.

European Space Agency Director-General Jan Woerner on Oct. 24 said cooperation should trump competition as the world’s spacefaring nations set out to clean up Earth’s orbit while establishing an international human presence at the moon and beyond.

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