in europe. i m thinking of people like fernando rull, who s one of the leaders of the project. he s been working on this for years, and suddenly everything he had planned and worked for has been taken away from him. that s correct. i mean, how do you approach him and others on that team and say, you know what, it s all off ? that is. that is painful, i tell you. and i have a large team of the exomars project manager, the exomars team, there are several people in esa, but also in industry. and it is true, they have been working for. it s their career, so they have worked ten, 15 years on building up this mission. it s ready. in fact, we have done everything we need to do to get on to mars, taking off from baikonur in september this year. and, of course, now we have stopped it. cos there s no plan b in terms of actually. i m not saying. ..getting you to mars. i m not saying there s no plan b. if i m not telling you the plan b, it s because we don t
like fernando rull, who s one of the leaders of the project. he s been working on this for years, and suddenly everything he had planned and worked for has been taken away from him. that s correct. i mean, how do you approach him and others on that team and say, you know what, it s all off ? that is. that is painful, i tell you. and i have a large team of the exomars project manager, the exomars team, there are several people in esa, but also in industry. and it is true, they have been working for. it s their career, so they have worked ten, 15 years on building up this mission. it s ready. in fact, we have done everything we need to do to get on to mars, taking off from baikonur in september this year. and, of course, now we have stopped it. cos there s no plan b in terms of actually. i m not saying. ..getting you to mars. i m not saying there s no plan b. if i m not telling you the plan b, it s because we don t have a decision yet.
i have a lot of engineers in esa and in industry, and you can imagine what it means. we have. some of the scientists in europe. i m thinking of people like fernando rull, who s one of the leaders of the project. he s been working on this for years, and suddenly everything he had planned and worked for has been taken away from him. that s correct. i mean, how do you approach him and others on that team and say, you know what, it s all off ? that is painful, i tell you. and i have a large team of the exomars project manager, the exomars team, there are several people in esa, but also in industry. and it is true, they have been working for. it s their career, so they have worked ten, 15 years on building up this mission. it s ready. in fact, we have done everything we need to do to get on to mars, taking off from baikonur in september this year. and, of course, now we have stopped it. cos there s no plan b in terms of actually getting you to mars.
and you can imagine what it means. we have. some of the scientists in europe. i m thinking of people like fernando rull, who s one of the leaders of the project. he s been working on this for years and suddenly everything he had planned and worked for has been taken away from him. that s correct. i mean, how do you approach him and others on that team and say, you know what, it s all off ? that is. that is painful, i tell you. and i have a large team of the exomars project manager, the exomars team, there are several people in esa, but also in industry. and it is true, they have been working for. it s their career, so they have worked ten, 15 years on building up this mission. it s ready. in fact, we have done everything we need to do to get on to mars, taking off from baikonur in september this year. and, of course, now we have stopped it. because there s no plan b in terms of actually. i m not saying. ..getting you to mars. i m not saying