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Well, if there is to be a plan b, its either new levels of cooperation with nasa, and, of course, back in 2011, 2012, you had a huge fallout with nasa over the mars mission because they decided to go their own way. so youre either going to have to rebuild a mars relationship with nasa, or somehow youre going to have to convince people like, i dont know, elon musk and jeff bezos, to work with you to do something dramatic that theyve never done before. so, what is plan b? im not putting it on the ...

I mean, that was complacency, wasnt it? you can call it complacency. actually, it has served us very well for... not now. not now, but for more than ten years, we had another rocket... we have, actually, three classes of rocket, as we call it. the one that is transporting heavier satellites into space, called the ariane 5 today. then we have the one in the lower segment, which is vega. and then we have the medium segment, which is now soyuz, which was soyuz, i should say, which was serving us we...

This was meant to be a russian portion. then the transfer vehicle to come towards mars. then the lander that brings the rover down to the surface, and the rover itself, which is the hard piece, to drill into the mars surface and do all the science. so, there are four big elements. and out of those four, two, roughly, are dropping out — the rocket — the launch by russia, and the lander in particular. plus, in the other parts, there is some russian technology. of course, all this stops now. iv...

Im not saying theres no plan b. if im not telling you the plan b, its because we dont have a decision yet. well, if there is to be a plan b, its either new levels of cooperation with nasa, and, of course, back in 2011, 2012, you had a huge fallout with nasa over the mars mission because they decided to go their own way. so youre either going to have to rebuild a mars relationship with nasa, or somehow youre going to have to convince people like, i dont know, elon musk and jeff bezos, to work wit...

And what you did in practical terms was year—on—year rely on russian rockets, the soyuz rocket programme, to take your astronauts and your equipment up into space. i mean, that was complacency, wasnt it? you can call it complacency. actually, it has served us very well for... not now. not now, but for more than ten years, we had another rocket... we have, actually, three classes of rocket, as we call it. the one that is transporting heavier satellites into space, called the ariane 5 today. t...

Programmes, is on earth observation. and earth observation, as you say, is looking at our planet, investigating climate change, sustainability, biodiversity and these aspects. so, europe is never going to bother with talking of manned mission to mars? wait, wait — and this is fundamental, and i think this goes very well in line with the policies of the heads of states, heads of government of all european countries. everyone has declared climate change to be the biggest threat of everyone, of m...

On the exomars rover project and continuing to cooperate with russia when it comes to the international space station? as we speak to each other today, there is an esa italian astronaut on the international space station working alongside two russian astronauts, delivered to the space station by a russian rocket. you know, youre saying thats fine and well go on doing it. in fact, i believe youre saying we want to continue that cooperation all the way through to 2030, despite what putins doing in...

Rocket today and, in the past, also with a russian rocket. and im asking my member states, my politicians, is this right or should this change? in a word, do you think it will change, yes or no? it will... i will... ive been mandated by the ministers, and including president macron — who has written me a letter — to put a group of high—level experts in place to ask exactly this question. these are not space people — these are people from society. journalists, economists... its not exactl...

The rover down to the surface, and the rover itself, which is the hard piece, to drill into the mars surface and do all the science. so, there are four big elements. and out of those four, two, roughly, are dropping out — the rocket — the launch by russia, and the lander in particular. plus, in the other parts, there is some russian technology. of course, all this stops now. ive done the series analysis, what needs to be done? what are the options? what can be done in europe, and what cannot...

Theres no plan b. if im not telling you the plan b, its because we dont have a decision yet. if there is to be a plan b, its either new levels of cooperation with nasa, and, of course, back in 2011, 2012, you had a huge fallout with nasa over the mars mission because they decided to go their own way. so youre either going to have to rebuild a mars relationship with nasa, or somehow youre going to have to convince people like, i dont know, elon musk and jeff bezos, to work with you to do somethin...