The Future of Space Exploration - A Symposium
ESA TV Exchanges
Where will space exploration be in twenty years? Will humans return to the Moon and set foot on Mars? As space powers around the world are working on new visions for the long-term future of space, ESA is consulting politics, academia and business on their views on which road Europe should be taking.
Today's Exchange was produced at a recent symposium on ""Europe and Exploration"" and features new 3-D ESA and NASA animations plus soundbites by ESA and NASA officials, UK scientist John Zarnecki and Europarliamentarian and former astronaut Umberto Guidoni.
The script is online as a PDF file under http://television.esa.int/photos/EbS49265.pdf
A WMV preview clip is online under http://esatv-movies.e-vision.nl/videos/mphi/future_31-01-07_wmphigh.wmv
 

SHOTLIST ""The Future of European Space Exploration""
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10 00 40 Edinburgh, the Scottish capital ... this history-laden town in the north of Britain hosted the first international space event in 2007. On 8 and 9 January, the European Space Agency and the British National Space Centre invited some 150 officials, experts and stakeholders to exchange views about what a European strategy for long-term space exploration might look like ...
10 01 07 ITW Bernhard Hufenbach, Head Architecture & Strategy Office, Human Spaceflight and Exploration, ESA ""For us Space exploration should have much broader social dimension. We should create benefits for different areas of the society. For the industry, we should have private sector participation. We should create direct benefits for the citizens, we should have them engaged in the process""
10 01 22 In the United States, important decisions have already been taken: On 4 December 2006, NASA, backed by Presid