spacecraft for the benefit of life on earth. space is an integral part of society. our way of working only functions with satellites for telecom, for navigation, for earth observation, for weather forecasting, for many things. so, we need the satellites for our daily life. the country that first sent a person into space is crashing back to earth, because of its war in ukraine. if russia doesn t partner up with another nation l or field its own space station, which given the current - circumstances and sanctions i is quite unlikely, it might not have any crewed space flight. what became a story of collaboration is now once again one of competition and conflict. china has its own space station. india wants one. and private companies are getting in on the act, too, sending up their own rockets. i m pallab ghosh, the bbc s science correspondent. come with me on a journey into the future of human exploration, and the new space race. archive: long before man had mastered the earth,
Boosters ignition. And lift off of artemis one. We rise together, back to the moon and beyond. Roaring off launch pad 49 be at the Kennedy Space center, the next chapter in americas love affair with all things space. And is on the core stage into Solid Rocket Boosters now prevailing the vehicle at 128 miles per hour. Nasas artemis rocket, the most Powerful Ebel built headed for a multi day crew orbit around the moon. A test flight before astronauts climb into the orion spaceship and head for a lunar landing, perhaps within 2 to 5 years. Flanked with two booster rockets, artemis looks like apollo on steroids. 15 more powerful than the Monster Center five rockets that carried apollo astronauts to the moon. There is a lot out there to explore, and this is the next beginning. And this is the artemis generation. Artemis is all about asserting americas leadership of space, building a lunar base, and orbiting lunar Space Station. Then, in the late 2030s, a Mission To Mars. The moon is a few d
boosters ignition. and lift off of artemis one. we rise together, back to the moon and beyond. roaring off launch pad 49 be at the kennedy space center, the next chapter in americas love affair with all things space. and is on the core stage into solid rocket boosters now prevailing the vehicle at 128 miles per hour. nasa s artemis rocket, the most powerful ebel built headed for a multi day crew orbit around the moon. a test flight before astronauts climb into the orion spaceship and head for a lunar landing, perhaps within 2 to 5 years. flanked with two booster rockets, artemis looks like apollo on steroids. 15% more powerful than the monster center five rockets that carried apollo astronauts to the moon. there is a lot out there to explore, and this is the next beginning. and this is the artemis generation. artemis is all about asserting america s leadership of space, building a lunar base, and orbiting lunar space station. then, in the late 2030 s, a mission to m
years chanting lock her up about hillary clinton because of some deleted emails or quote unquote wiping a surveyor, they re now out there defending a man who clearly did not take the national security of the united states to heart. i will be up to doj whether that reaches the level of indictment. but this is disgusting, in my mind. and a reaction to president biden s promise to cancel some student debt for low, middle income borrowers and to critics who say it doesn t go far enough. there are a lot of people hurting announce cider right now, people are getting crushed with inflation, crushed with gas prices, food prices and all the rest. i think a targeted approach right now really does send the wrong message, there s a lot of people out there making 30, 40 grand a year that didn t go to college. they need help as well. the criticism is correct, but the answer is not to deny help two people who cannot deal with these horrendous student debts. the answer is that, maybe j
donald trump was detached from reality. his former attorney general, william barr, said he showed more interest in crazy stuff than facts. mr trump has called the investigation a sham. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. the rupture in relations between most of europe and russia since vladimir putin s invasion of ukraine has left european governments scrambling to end their dependence on moscow s oil and gas. it turns out there was another arena in which europe had become dangerously dependent on russia space. without russian rockets and other space know how, europe s short term space plans are now in disarray. my guest isjosef aschbacher, director general of the european space agency. is europe destined to be an also ran in the space race? josef aschbacher, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. thank you for having me. let s start where i started in that introduction your relationship with russia. it has exposed, has it not, the war w