Germany planning moon mission

[Mrs Behavin]

The German government is considering a plan to launch its own unmanned mission to the moon, according to European media reports.

The country would send a space probe to orbit the moon as soon as 2013, Walter Doellinger, the head of the country's space agency, the German Aerospace Centre or DLR (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft und Raumfahrt eV), told the Financial Times newspaper on Thursday.

Speaking to the newspaper's German edition — Financial Times Deutschland — after DLR made the proposal to Germany's parliament, Doellinger said that the aim was to show the world Germany was capable of the task, according to Agence-France Presse news service.

Germany planning moon mission: report

 

[IntruderLS1]

Cool. That gets a big thumbs up from me.

 

[sharpies]

This sort of thing worries me a little, but only because I feel a loss every time someone goes independant. It takes a lot of money to explore space & if everyone got together we could do a lot more than if each country plans it's own little missions.

Good on Germany for at least doing something but it time the world saw space as the next big resource to totally rape, pillage, plunder & strip bare.

Allan