Watch this space as Merkel pulls out of ESA project announcement

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Watch this space as Merkel pulls out of ESA project announcement
By Robert Hackwill



COLOGNE: -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel surprised the press on Wednesday when she abandoned a flagged major announcement on international space co-operation while visiting the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne.

Instead she voiced general support for international collaboration in space on manned missions.

“Crewed spaceflight gives us the opportunity to explore specific issues in conditions of zero gravity starting with technical alloys, medical experiments and many other things,” said the former physicist.

Putting people in space was vital to maintain public interest said the boss of the European Space Agency.

“The inspiration is especially being expressed by the astronauts. When they report from space as our correspondents, it`s a thrill for people of all age groups and this also has an effect on society,” maintained ESA’s Director-General Johann-Dietrich Woerner.

Space is certainly far too big a nut to crack for one nation, and existing examples of international co-operation, like the ISS, have delivered success.

-- (c) Copyright Euronews 2016-05-19

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Perhaps she's thinking about a new home for the refugees ?

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Perhaps she's thinking about a new home for the refugees ?

What, instead of the billion dollar luxury cruise ship some of them are living on in Sweden? Instead of sharing free homes with the infirm and elderly(as in Malmo, Sweden - funnily enough that didn't work out well due to the rapes and violence against the poor elderly Swedes)

Get them all on a spaceship and blast off. Further the better, let them colonize some far far away planet instead of the post industrial revolution western world.