{"id":23135,"date":"2016-03-05T18:46:29","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T02:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/esa-planning-to-build-an-international-village-on-the-moon"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:45:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:45:18","slug":"esa-planning-to-build-an-international-village-on-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/esa-planning-to-build-an-international-village-on-the-moon","title":{"rendered":"ESA Planning To Build An International Village\u2026 On The Moon!"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

With all the talk about manned missions to Mars by the 2030s, its easy to overlook another major proposal for the next great leap. In recent years, the European Space Agency has been quite vocal about its plan to go back to the Moon by the 2020s. More importantly, they have spoken often about their plans to construct a moon base, one which would serve as a staging platform for future missions to Mars and beyond.<\/p>\n

These plans were detailed at a recent international symposium that took place on Dec. 15th at the European Space Research and Technology Center in Noordwijk, Netherlands. During the symposium, which was titled \u201cMoon 2020\u20132030 \u2013 A New Era of Coordinated Human and Robotic Exploration<\/a>\u201d, the new Director General of the ESA \u2013 Jan Woerner \u2013 articulated his agency\u2019s vision.<\/p>\n

The purpose of the symposium \u2013 which saw 200 scientists and experts coming together to discuss plans and missions for the next decade \u2013 was to outline common goals for lunar exploration, and draft methods on how these can be achieved cooperatively. Intrinsic to this was the International Space Exploration Coordinated Group <\/a>\u2018s (ISECG) Global Exploration Roadmap<\/a>, an agenda for space exploration that was drafted by the group\u2019s 14 members \u2013 which includes NASA, the ESA, Roscosmos, and other federal agencies.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/video.dailymail.co.uk\/video\/bc\/rtmp_uds\/1418450360\/20\u2026182001.mp4 With all the talk about manned missions to Mars by the 2030s, its easy to overlook another major proposal for the next great leap. In recent years, the European Space Agency has been quite vocal about its plan to go back to the Moon by the 2020s. More importantly, they have spoken often about [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":377,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/377"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62543,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23135\/revisions\/62543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}