Europe now has a unique opportunity to equip itself with a manned spacecraft.
The Paris International Space Summit on 9 and 10 September provides an opportunity to launch a project for a capsule capable of carrying people. This would be an industrial gamble, the repercussions of which would extend beyond the space sector alone, explains Stéphane Lauer, an editorialist at Le Monde, in his column.
We haven't written up this one. Le Monde Economie has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.